Amy Xiaotian Wang / 王晓天 is a Chinese(ish)-American(?) writer. She’s fascinated by oddities in business and culture—for example, ontological handbags, repellent shoes, or the octogenarian king of the record industry.
Since 2021, Amy has been the assistant managing editor of The New York Times Magazine. Her work has also appeared in publications including Quartz, The Atlantic, Slate, Frame, and The Economist. As senior editor at Rolling Stone, she launched a global team reporting on the music business.
Her first fiction publication, “Gravity,” won Glimmer Train’s New Writer Award. Other short stories can be found here. She is—how’d you guess—at work on a novel.
Amy holds a B.A. in English literature from Yale University, where she was an editor for the Yale Daily News and wrote a collection of sad short stories about the sea. She lives in New York City with a three-legged Carolina dog. She speaks passable Mandarin and fairly reprehensible French.