Born in 1969 in Boulder, Colorado—the daughter of a professor of language acquisition and a watercolor artist—Amy grew up in a nurturing environment of literature and visual arts. Her work is born out of a passionate interest in fairytales, myths, and art.

Amy started beading in 1998 to complete a staff project for Beadwork magazine, and she was hooked from that moment on. She enjoys the process of stitching the beads to cloth. Each bead is like a thought, and the spiral path of her beadwork is like the passage of time, with each moment building on the next until an image emerges.

Amy was the editor of Spin-Off magazine published by Interweave Press in Loveland, Colorado for thirteen years. She is now a Montessori-trained art teacher in a public, charter Montessori middle school. She earned her B.A. from Cornell College in Iowa, majoring in Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Art. She earned her M.F.A. in Fibers from Colorado State University’s Art department. In 2002, she wrote Beaded Embellishment: Techniques and Designs for Embroidering on Cloth with Robin Atkins. Soon after, she married and changed her name from Amy C. Clarke to Amy Clarke Moore.