Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist, who has an arts writer and column for the Albany Times Union. Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association.

Biancolli is the author of Fritz Kreisler: Love's Sorrow, Love's Joy, House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year, and the play, Kreisler's Long Sleep, where it had a staged reading at the Capital Repertory Theatre. Amy lives in Albany with her three children.