Amy is a Los Angeles-based writer and professional optimist who has written three books on happiness and optimism: The Happy Life Checklist: 654 Simple Ways to Find Your Bliss, Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now, and Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match. Her driving belief is that you don’t have to change your whole life to be happier; you just need to see what’s in front of you in a whole new way. A former magazine editor at Glamour and Maxim magazines, Amy also writes magazine cover features and celebrity profiles, and is a former host of a Sirius XM radio show offering relationship advice. She lives in Venice, CA, with her husband and toddler daughter.