About
Amy Safford, MFA, is an award-winning Maine author. Her debut novel, Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place, won three international literary awards: the 2025 Eric Hoffer Spiritual Fiction and First Horizon Book Awards, and the Independent Publishers IPPY Silver Medal for Visionary/New Age Fiction. She was also named a finalist in the 2024 American Book Fest Visionary Fiction and 2025 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Speculative Fiction Awards.
Her stories blend historical literary fiction and supernatural suspense for an enticing, thought-provoking reflection on New England history that shapes our lives today. Amy taught English composition at the University of New England and was a contributing writer to Coastal Fish of Southern Maine and New Hampshire. Her alma maters are Boston University and the USM Stonecoast MFA Program. The former executive director of the Maine Psychological Association, Amy lives in Saco with her husband, Jon.
Featured Work
Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place
The supernatural shift of Penelope Goode begins after a near-death experience. When she wakes up in recovery, the world around her is more vivid and intense. Strange visions creep up on her like a dream, and Pennie fears for her sanity, especially while surveying a graveyard where she senses her first vibrations—spirits of the Malaga Island settlement reinterred on these very grounds after a forced exile by the state, a chapter of racism and eugenics. Through a slow unearthing of the past, she awakens to the haunting history of Malaga Island in her fight for justice and the truth. Goode Vibrations of the Wresting Place is Book I of the Goode Vibrations series.
