Amy Spencer is a Los Angeles-based writer / journalist who relocated from New York City. She writes pieces on lifestyle, relationships, and celebrities for publications including Glamour, Page Six magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, In Style, New York, and others. She is currently writing a dating advice book for singles, Meeting Your Half-Orange, an utterly upbeat guide to using dating optimism to find your perfect match, which will be published by Running Press in Spring 2010. Prior to writing full-time, she was a launching editor at Maxim magazine in the U.S., a features editor at Glamour magazine and a senior features editor at Star. Amy has appeared as a media celebrity expert on network and cable channels including NBC, CBS, VH1 and the E! channel. And, following in the footsteps of fellow relationship experts Greg Behrendt and Dan Savage, Amy was a guest blogger for The Great Mate Debate on Chemistry.com.

Amy is also a radio host. Most recently, she hosted Sirius satellite’s Maxim108 on Sex Files, a weekly live call-in advice show about love, sex and relationships. Prior to hosting, she held the post of resident relationship expert on the Maxim channel, and appeared weekly on The Covino & Rich Show with hosts Rich Davis and Steve Covino. She has also been featured as a relationship radio expert on Howard Stern’s Howard 100 News.

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