Amy Souza is a writer, editor, and the founder of SPARK, a quarterly creativity event in which artists, writers, and musicians use each other’s work to prompt new work of their own.

Amy’s articles have been published in daily newspapers, alternative weeklies, alumni, trade, and national magazines, and on the Web. She also edits and produces e-newsletters and has produced corporate videos, online and CD-based instructional materials, and segments for national and regional public television shows. Amy has a master’s degree in radio and television from San Francisco State University, and in 2009 she received an honorable mention for magazine feature writing in the Writer’s Digest 78th Annual Writing Competition. She recently completed the Comics Certificate Program at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.