About Amy

EXPANDED BIO:

Amy Cherrix grew up in quirky Asheville, NC, less than an hour from a formerly top secret NASA tracking station--a fact that inspired her love of science, and fueled her early fascination with hidden history. For six years she had the best job in the world as the children's book buyer at the fiercely independent Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville, NC.

Amy’s books include: Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike (Harper Collins); In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race (Harper Collins); Goodnight, Little Bookstore, illustrated by E.B. Goodale (Candlewick Press); Animal Super Powers, illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Simon & Schuster); Animal Architects (Simon & Schuster); and two books in Harper Collins’ award-winning Scientists in the Field series: Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, and the Rise of Urban Wildlife and Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code, a finalist for the Subaru Prize for Excellence in Middle Grade Science Books.

Another book is forthcoming! The non-fiction picture book, The United States of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals will be published by Macmillan Publishers in autumn 2026.

Amy holds a master's degree in children's literature from Simmons University. If she isn't reading, writing, or scouring the Internet for late-breaking science and nature news, you can find her on Instagram and YouTube @amycherrix. She is represented by Ammi-Joan Paquette at the Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

ABRIDGED bio:

Amy’s books have earned starred reviews, been chosen as Indie Next selections, won Junior Library Guild awards, and named to best-books-of-the-year lists by Kirkus Reviews, Bank Street College, The Horn Book, and the New York Public Library.  She is the author of the acclaimed young adult middle grade and non-fiction books: Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race. She is the author of two non-fiction picture books: Animal Superpowers and Animal Architects as well as the picture book, Good Night, Little Bookstore. She wrote two middle grade nonfiction books in the award-winning Scientists in the Field series: Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, and the Rise of Urban Wildlife, and Eye of the Storm: NASA, Drones, and the Race to Crack the Hurricane Code, a finalist for the Subaru Prize for Excellence in middle grade science books.

Her forthcoming non-fiction picture book, The United States of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, will be published by Macmillan in 2026.

 Amy lives in North Carolina.