Amy Bennett Williams

Amy Bennett Williams came to The News-Press in 1988 as an ashtray-emptying, obituary-writing clerk/reporter, and has gone on to cover everything from cake contests to tuberculosis outbreaks. In addition to writing features and news articles, Williams helped conceive the paper’s weekly Tropicalia magazine, where her column, Field Notes appears. Her sense-of-place essays air weekly on local NPR affiliate WGCU. She lives in rural Alva with her writer husband, Roger, two sons and an ever-changing menagerie.