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 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 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 in Tin House, Gay Mag, Indiana Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Utne Reader, and Papercutter.