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About Amy Goodpaster Strebe
As a professional journalist for nearly two decades, Amy Goodpaster Strebe has worked as managing editor of several newspapers around the country, as well as contributed numerous freelance articles to both national and international publications.
Her first book, Desert Dogs: The Marines of Operation Iraqi Freedom, was published in May 2004 by MBI. While researching the book, she drew upon her experiences as managing editor of The Georgia Guardian when she accompanied the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia on deployment to the Middle East as part of Operation Desert Thunder in 1998. Based out of a cabal deep in the Kuwaiti desert near the Iraqi border, Amy, along with photographer Russ Bryant, documented the daily lives of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment.
Amy has written articles based on her historical research in Russian Life and Flight Journal magazines. An editorial she wrote about the WASP receiving the Congressional Gold Medal was published in the March 6, 2010 issue of the Wall Street Journal. She contributed to the Encyclopedia of World War II: A Political, Social and Military History, published by ABC-Clio in 2004. In addition, Amy wrote the foreword to World War II Russian pilot Anna Timofeyeva-Yegorova’s autobiography, Red Sky, Black Death: A Soviet Woman Pilot’s Memoir of the Eastern Front, published by Slavica Publishers in 2009.
Serving as a subject matter expert, Amy is often interviewed by the media about her book Flying for Her Country. She was interviewed by the BBC in London for a radio program broadcasted worldwide on Nov. 2, 2009 about the Night Witches—the Soviet women combat pilots of World War II. In addition to the BBC, Amy has also done interviews for Voice of America (for its viewers in Russia), Agence France-Presse (France’s Associated Press), Veterans Radio, KPBS’ “These Days” radio program, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Amy is a member of Women Military Aviators, Coast Guard Aviation Association, Military Writers Society of America, Women in Aviation, International, and The Authors Guild. She is on the board of directors for the National WASP World War II Museum, located in Sweetwater, Texas and serves as the volunteer ombudsman for U.S. Coast Guard Sector, San Diego.
Amy lives in San Diego, California with her husband and two children.
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