Amy Sly is the Visual Designer for BuzzFeed and moonlights as a book designer, magazine art director, CoverSpy co-creator, photographer, and side project aficionado. She lives in bucolic Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Amy studied photography and shot for newspapers before graduating from Portland State University with a degree in Graphic Design and moving to New York City to design books for Random House. She art directs Slice literary magazine, runs CoverSpy (a community of publishing nerds turned secret agents), and posts a cell phone photo a day to For You, Not Them.

Amy grew up in the forests of Oregon with a lumberjack dad, hippie mom, and brother who practiced his ninja moves on her. She knows how to shoot a bow and arrow, start a campfire, and fix a flat bike tire. Most notably, she makes a mean batch of stovetop popcorn [TIP: put hot sauce in with the oil and sprinkle with truffle salt].

She also overshares on Tumblr and Twitter and can be reached at amy@amysly.com.