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.

In spring 2021 Amy was a Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where she developed Wordslaw, a storytelling workshop for people with intellectual disabilities.

She is also continuing work started in 2020 with the Arizona Daily Star and Pro Publica's Local Reporting Network focused on services for Arizonans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) with an emphasis on making the work accessible to people with IDD.

Her work has appeared on the radio shows Here & Now, The Pulse and This American Life, and she's been published by the Center for Public Integrity, STAT, Slate, The Forward, Literary Hub, The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Lenny Letter, Motherwell, and Brain, Child. Amy worked for 25 years as a staff writer and editor at New Times, the alternative weekly in Phoenix.

Amy is a three-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award, most recently for her 2020 series with the Arizona Daily Star/ProPublica.  In 2023 she was honored to receive the Order of the Silver Key award from the Valley of the Sun Society for Professional Journalists. She also received a regional Murrow award for a KJZZ project, UNSAFE, and first place from the Dateline Awards for a story for the Center for Public Integrity. 

She’s a member of the advisory board of the National Center on Disability and Journalism, where she has updated two editions of NCDJ’s disability language style guide.

Amy's first book, My Heart Can't Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome, was published by Woodbine House in 2016. Amy is a graduate of Scripps College (B.A. American Studies) and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism (M.S.). She lives with her husband, Ray Stern. They have two daughters.