Amy Xiaotian Wang / 王晓天 is a Chinese(ish)-American(?) writer who grew up in Beijing, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.
She is an editor at The New York Times Magazine, where she also writes features and essays about the economics of desire. Previously, as a senior editor at Rolling Stone, she launched a global team reporting on the music business. Her journalism has also appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Frame, Quartz, and The Economist.
Her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train and Joyland, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is working on a novel. (Actually two, but it’s not worth getting into that entire saga here.)
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 sea creatures.
She lives in New York City with a three-legged Carolina dog. She speaks fluent Mandarin and fairly reprehensible French.
photographs: Zayira Ray