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Share: Amy Friedman Tell Me a Story writer and Los Angeles resident Amy Friedman began writing stories when she was 12, emulating her storytelling father and her favorite writers. Stories formed the heart of her life growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, and she took her love of writing along with her as she moved to New York City, where she received her B.A. in literature from Barnard College and an M.A. in creative writing from City College, City University of New York.

Crisscrossing the country - from New York to San Francisco, back to New York, then to Los Angeles and even to a sheep farm in a small eastern town of Ontario, she eventually settled back in Los Angeles. While in Ontario, she wrote a weekly column for Canada's oldest daily newspaper, The Kingston Whig-Standard, and created the seeds of what would become, in 1992, Tell Me a Story. The first incarnation of Tell Me a Story, The Bedtime Story, won the 1991 Alberta Literacy Award for outstanding contribution to literacy.

Friedman has written four books, which have received critical acclaim: "Kick the Dog and Shoot the Cat," a film-to-farm memoir; "Nothing Sacred: A Conversation With Feminism"; "Tell Me a Story"; and "The Spectacular Gift." She continues to write and publish both fiction and nonfiction for newspapers, magazines and literary journals. She also performs her stories, often accompanied by musicians, in schools and at summer festivals.

Friedman has produced two children's folktales CDs entitled, "Tell Me A Story: Animal Magic," (released 2007) and "Tell Me A Story: Timeless Folktales from Around the World," (2006) which won multiple awards, including the National Parenting Publications Awards' (NAPPA) Gold Award and the Parents' Choice Silver Honors Award by the Parents' Choice Foundation.

She is presently working on a novel, a collection of short stories and a television adaptation of Tell Me a Story. She credits the St. Lawrence River, her collie, Kell, and her two stepdaughters, Sarah and Cassandra, with much of her inspiration.