Amy Paulson is the Amazon Bestselling author of Behind the Educator: Finding Light When Life Unravels — a writer with a story that moves through shadow and emerges with hope intact. A Cornell University graduate and Bucks County native, she spent twenty-five years in a relationship that was defining and formative, and twenty years building a life in California, before returning to her East Coast roots — where life is loud, tender, and happily shared with her children and animals.

She is not an educator, an activist, or a policy expert. She is a mother and a witness — someone who watched from inside a marriage as California's public school system slowly pushed out the person she loved most. She watched addiction, codependency, and institutional trauma reshape everything she thought she knew about her family and herself. She came to this book through lived experience and with a story she could no longer keep to herself.

Her hope is that readers — whether they've loved someone struggling with addiction, navigated the weight of codependency, felt the impact of institutional failure, or simply carried everything alone for too long — will find something of themselves in these pages.

Behind the Educator: Finding Light When Life Unravels is her debut memoir. Available now.