Why We Lie

About Amy Impellizzeri

Amy Impellizzeri is a reformed corporate litigator, former start-up exec, and award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. After spending a decade at one of the top law firms in the country, Amy left to advocate for working women, eventually landing at a VC-backed start-up company, Hybrid Her (named by ForbesWoman as a top website for women in 2010 and 2011), while writing her first novel, Lemongrass Hope, named a 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Bronze Winner (romance). Her sophomore novel, Secrets of Worry Dolls, was an Editor's Pick in Foreword Reviews magazine.

Amy's third novel, The Truth About Thea, was an inaugural pick for Francis Ford Coppola Winery's Book & Bottles. Her novel In Her Defense was compared to Big Little Lies with "crackling courtroom drama" by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.

Amy's first nonfiction book, Lawyer Interrupted, was published by the American Bar Association and has been featured in TheAtlantic.com, Above the Law, ABC27, and more. The follow up, How to Leave the Law, coauthored with Harvard-trained lawyer turned professor, Liz Brown, has been featured in Bloomberg Law, Boston Business Journal, and more.

Amy is a Tall Poppy Writer, past president of the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and faculty member for Drexel University's MFA in creative writing program. Her essays and articles have appeared in the Huffington Post, Writer's Digest, Scary Mommy, ABA's Law Practice Today, and Skirt! magazine, among more.

Amy currently lives in rural Pennsylvania, where she works and plays and keeps up on all of the latest research confirming that large volumes of coffee are indeed good for you.