Amy (Getchell) Safford
Amy (Getchell) Safford (COM’85) of Saco, Maine, writes that her debut novel, Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place (Safford Communications, 2024), won three international literary awards in 2025: the Eric Hoffer Spiritual Fiction Award, the First Horizon Book Award, and the Independent Publisher IPPY Silver Medal in the category of Visionary/New Age Fiction. She was also named a finalist in the 2025 IAN book awards, the 2024 American Book Fest Best Book Awards, and the 2025 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Fiction Awards. In 2025, she published the sequel, Goode Vibrations of the Dead River Valley (Safford Communications). Amy’s stories blend New England history with literary fiction, suspense, and the paranormal. She taught English composition at the University of New England and is a former executive director of the Maine Psychological Association. Friends can email her at safford.amy@gmail.com.
From the Summer 2026 issue.