Amy LaCount was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and American father and moved stateside to metro Detroit when she was four years old. She attends Brown University, concentrating in human biology with a track in race and gender. In the past, she has interned at the Tokyo Women’s Medical College and worked on a research project examining the true cause of chronic pain. Extracurricularly at Brown, she is a staff writer for the female comedy blog The Rib, a member of Writer’s Group, which works with developmentally disabled adults in creative writing workshops, and she founded Brown’s first feminist publication, Bluestockings. Her hobbies include playing piano, listening to hip hop, watching videos of cats, and having dance parties. She is absolutely honored to have worked on Spry’s inaugural issue.