Amy Martin

Amy Martin is the author of Wild Dallas-Fort Worth: Explore the Amazing Nature of North Texas (https://wild-dfw.com/), released by Timber Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, in 2022. She is the senior reporter at Green Source Texas (https://www.greensourcetexas.org/) and author of Itchy Business: Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant (http://itchy.biz/). ~ . A journalist for over 40 years, Amy covered comedy, music, and eclectic entertainment, as well as news features, for Dallas Observer, Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, and D magazine, plus a variety of tabloids and monthlies. Her final entertainment foray was as senior comedy, cirque, and magic critic for the online TheaterJones. ~ . As an environmental reporter (her "day job"), Amy was contributing editor and columnist for the Garbage, a national environmental magazine. She had a recycling column and features page called Taking Trash at The Dallas Morning News. ~ . She was The Aging Hippie columnist for Senior Voice, and the Taoist panel member of the Texas Faith blog of The Dallas Morning News. ~ . Amy was known by many in North Texas as the Moonlady for her alternative newservice of 15 years, Moonlady News, and served as creator/producer/promoter of the acclaimed Winter and Summer SolstiCelebrations for 20 years.