Amy Lam is a writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. She was formerly the deputy editor at diaCRITICS, exploring arts and culture of Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora. She had been a contributing editor and cohost of Backtalk podcast at Bitch Media, and editorial lead at On She Goes sharing the world of women of color and travel. She is a Kundiman fellow and received an MFA from the University of Mississippi where she was the John & Renee Grisham fellow. She has been awarded scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference; artist residencies at Djerassi and Loghaven; and was an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop.

Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in Tin House, Gay Mag, Indiana Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Utne Reader, and Papercutter.