Amy Wilson

Podcast Host

Amy Wilson (the bubbly brunette) is the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, The Worrier, The Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be , which was chosen by Target as an “Emerging Author” selection and optioned by Lionsgate to become a TV series. She is also the creator of Mother Load, a one woman show which toured to sixteen cities after its hit off-Broadway run. Amy currently at work on a second parenting book. As an actor, Amy co-starred in The Last Night of Ballyhoo on Broadway, appeared as a series regular on two sitcoms (opposite Laurie Metcalf, Norm MacDonald, and Michael Chiklis), and appeared in many other TV shows, films, and plays. Amy has headlined the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, toured the country as an improv comedian with Chicago City Limits, and had a two-year development deal with NBC for her sketch comedy group Live on Tape. For six years she directed the NYC production of Listen To Your Mother, a national series of live readings in honor of Mother’s Day. She has written for magazines like Redbook and Parenting, and news sites like CNN, NPR, and The New York Times. She and her husband raise their three children in New York City.