Amy is the author of Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity, named a best book of 2023 by NPR and Scientific American. She is also the former executive director and publisher of Orion magazine and coeditor of the anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a PhD in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress.