Amy Paige Condon

Amy Paige Condon wrote her first short story as a first grader in Mrs. Henry's class at Lee Britain Elementary in Irving, Texas, and won a poster of storied Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach. From that moment forward, she knew she wanted to be a writer.

Since then, she has worked as an award-winning journalist and editor, freelance writer, cookbook collaborator, broadcast news producer, and creative writing teacher.

Amy has collaborated with nationally acclaimed chefs, including on the bestselling "The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook" (Artisan 2012), "The Wiley's Championship Barbecue Cookbook" (Gibbs Smith 2014), "Bress 'n' Nyam: Gullah-Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-generation Farmer" (Countryman Press 2021), “Roots, Heart, Soul: The Story, Celebration, and Recipes of Afro Cuisine in America” (Harper Collins 2024), and “A Feather and a Fork: 125 Intertribal Recipes from an Indigenous Food Warrior.” 

She is the author of the biography "A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs," about one of the most influential newspaper editors of the 20th century that almost no one has heard of, and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary, "The Life of Bill Baggs."

Her podcast, Mindfull Eating, launches on Sept. 24.

Amy founded the Refinery Writing Studio in 2017 to help aspiring and established writers develop their storytelling skills. She lives in Savannah, Georgia with her husband, artist Brian J. Condon, rescue dog Addie, and an ornery pig named Gus.