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Why are we so determined to be loved rather than to love ourselves? Why is it so hard to forgive our imperfections and remember that we’re extraordinary? Why are we so willing to listen to others’ voices when our own voice is right here, screaming to be heard?

Full of the stories that have brought her to this moment and the accompanying wisdom those experiences have lent her, Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love (She Writes Press) is Amy Ferris’s answer — tender, fierce, irreverent — to these questions, and much more. It releases on Oct. 3, but is available for pre-orders.

“Amy Ferris is an audacious writer … both funny and heartbreaking, gut-wrenching and uplifting all in the same breath. Through her honest storytelling she challenges us to embrace ourselves, be grateful for our mistakes and 'wear our scars like stardust'. She does exactly that in this deliciously clever and deeply moving memoir. So read it. Laugh. Cry. Be uplifted. This is a mighty gorgeous book,” says Marta Kauffman, co-creator, writer and producer of Friends and Grace and Frankie.

Amy is an author, editor, screenwriter and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press), was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012. As a screenwriter, she wrote the film Mr. Wonderful and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film Funny Valentines. Her YA book a greater goode was published by Houghton Mifflin.

As an editor, she curated Shades of Blue: Writers on Depression, Suicide, and Feeling Blue (Seal Press) and co-edited the anthology Dancing at The Shame Prom (Seal Press). She recently co-authored the book Old School Love (HarperCollins) with Rev Run of Run-DMC fame.

In 2019, she was named one of Women’s eNews’s “21 Leaders for the 21st Century,” and in 2021 she was a recipient of NextTribe's “Women of the Year.” Amy is a co-founder of the Milford Readers and Writers Festival and resides in Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania.