Amy Y.Q. Lin is a writer and pianist living in Seattle. Her writing is published in Catapult, The Rumpus, and One Story. A semi-finalist for the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, she is the recipient of scholarships and support from Tin House, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is currently working on her first novel.
She received her MFA in Creative Writing in 2025 from New York University, where she worked with Jeffrey Eugenides, Garth Greenwell, Katie Kitamura, Raven Leilani, David Lipsky, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Hannah Tinti.
At NYU, Amy was an adjunct professor in the English department. She taught an undergraduate course called "Introduction to Prose and Poetry," a combined creative writing workshop and craft class. Students came away with a strong writing portfolio, a new understanding of storytelling techniques, and the tools to critique others' works with respect and professionalism. She has also taught classical piano lessons at Cornell University and from her private studio.
Amy served as Fiction Editor and Books Editor for Washington Square Review, an award-winning literary magazine, from 2022-2024, where she managed a team of two editors and three assistant editors, solicited writers, curated short stories and book reviews for two print issues and the digital features section, and managed content reading, selection, assignment, editing, and publication schedules. She has been a reader for One Story and the digital anthology Best of the Net.
Amy volunteers on the Board of Directors as Vice President for Seattle City of Literature to manage Seattle's designation as a UNESCO City of Literature on behalf of the municipality. She also serves as a Program Advisory Committee Member for the BS programs in Computer Science and Game Design at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
In addition to creative writing, Amy works in content marketing. She writes and edits articles for a software development blog and clients in healthcare, banking, finance, insurance, and e-commerce.