Amy Leach published her first book, Things That Are, with Milkweed Editions and The Everybody Ensemble with FSG. Her latest, The Salt of the Universe, was released in August 2024. Hailed by one critic “for the sheer audacity of her invention, for the constant bridge too far she manages to cross,” Leach has received a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and a fellowship from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. 

“Mad, mystical and acutely perceptive about nature, these are essays to bring us back to Earth,” the Guardian wrote about Amy’s book... “a mysticism of a peculiarly American sort, the same pantheistic ecstasy of Whitman and Thoreau...Nature writing is a boom industry in Britain, but it's nature writing of a particular flavour: astringent, controlled, in impeccably good taste. I can't think of anyone in these islands who writes like the American essayist Amy Leach, with such mad, magical exuberance and whimsy. This is a collection in the school of Annie Dillard, whose 1974 non-fiction masterpiece, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, has remained influential over the muddier sort of American letters.”