Amy Lam

Pronouns: she/her

Amy Lam is a writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. She is a Kundiman fellow and received an MFA from the University of Mississippi, where she was the John and Renee Grisham Fellow. She was formerly the deputy editor at diaCRITICS, exploring arts and culture of Vietnamese and Southeast 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 has been awarded support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference; artist residencies at Hedgebrook, Mineral Arts, Djerassi, and Loghaven; and was an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop. She has led presentations and spoken at Portland Book Festival, Literary Arts, Lit Crawl, and AWP. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Gay Mag, Indiana Review, and Pacifica Literary Review.