Amy Sanders was born in Yueyang, Hunan, China and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. In 2022, she completed a year as a post- baccalaureate student at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She served as a long-term Artist in Residence at the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL; Pentaculum Resident at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN; and a short-term Resident Artist at the Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park in Shigaraki, Japan. Amy has shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Currently, she is attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Master of Fine Arts candidate.