Amy Silverman is a journalist, writer and teacher based in her hometown, Phoenix, Arizona. 

For the past three decades, Amy has covered metropolitan Phoenix in all kinds of ways — writing long form political stories for local and national outlets, editing New Times’ “Best of Phoenix,” and investigating living conditions for vulnerable Arizonans. She currently works as executive producer for The Show, an original production of KJZZ, the Phoenix NPR member station, writes a column for PHOENIX magazine and co-teaches the long-running Mothers Who Write workshop.

Amy is committed to helping others tell their stories — as an editor, producer, teacher or curator of storytelling events. 

She is the co-curator of the live reading series Bar Flies at Valley Bar in downtown Phoenix as well as the co-editor of the essay collection Bar Flies: True Stories from the Early Years.