Amy DeMatt is an attorney and court administrator. She has earned awards for writing as an undergraduate in Philosophy and served on the Washington and Lee University Law Review. She agrees with Frederick Douglass that “if there is no struggle, there is no progress.” This year she will test her own progress by competing in the Glass City Marathon and two endurance hike and continuing in her efforts to improve at creative writing. She lives in Greensburg, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.