Amy Toensing is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. She has photographed stories from her own backyard in Maine and the Jersey shore to the jungles of Papua New Guinea and the Australian outback. Her stories are primarily intimate essays reflecting the lives of ordinary people. Toensing is currently working on her 13th story for National Geographic, and her images have also appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and National Geographic Traveler.