Amie Newman
Writer, editor, activist, workshop leader, documentary filmmaker, and storyteller exploring the intimate, complex truths of our bodies and lives—truths so often silenced by stigma, shame, and structural neglect. Eat Me: Essays, Poetry, & Art on Eating Disorders From Midlife Women, Third Rail Press, for publication in Spring 2028.
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EAT ME: Essays, Poetry, & Art On Eating Disorders From Midlife Women
From Third Rail Press, for publication in Spring 2028! My anthology about midlife women’s experiences with eating disorders, body image, and recovery across generations. Through essays, poems, and art, we share our personal struggles.
Hot-N-Bothered: A Fundraising Party for The Menopause Monologues
Friday, November 13th, 2026! One unforgettable night benfiting the spring shows at The Seattle Rep. I am thrilled to be associate producing the shows in Seattle! The fundraising party features live music by the all-woman Radiohead cover band the Bodysnatchers! Original monologues! Irresistible silent auction items! Food and drink!
VIDEO: Eating Disorder Recovery in Midlife Q&A
Originally aired: Friday, February 27, 2026
Watch the video Q&A with me and Open Secrets editor Rachel Kramer Bussel about midlife women and eating disorders! This was hosted by Open Secrets Magazine for Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Reclaiming Ourselves: Menopause, Life Transitions and More
A virtual or in-person workshop
Interested in an interactive workshop exploring the transformative possibilities of midlife and beyond? Through shared storytelling, reflective writing, and gentle movement, we’ll reconnect with our bodies, release outdated narratives, and imagine what’s possible in this next chapter.
New Essay in Steph Sprenger’s upcoming Redacted: What Divorced Women Aren’t Telling You
Stay tuned for the upcoming anthology “Redacted,” set to be published in 2027, about midlife women and divorce, in which I have an essay.
LatestWork
Sideways: A Variety Show About Eating Disorders, OCD, and Being Human
Opal Food & Body Wisdom, an eating disorder treatment center in Seattle, organized a stunningly beautiful evening to benefit The Busyhead Project, a mental health advocacy organization. The performers were from around the country, and I was honored to share a stage with them.
The Big & Little Mercies of My Body
This injury gives me the chance to release from the control—both the control I thought I had in the depths of my eating disorders and over the years of trying to manipulate my body, control in my own recovery from those eating disorders as I have sought to think and behave in healthier ways, and control over what my time in Mexico (and beyond) will look like.
A Love Letter to Myself After Eating Disorder Treatment
The sharp, familiar outlines of anorexia and bulimia came into view when I met T. I was 52 years old, two years separated from my husband of 25 years, and still grieving the sudden death of my mother. T. wasn’t the cause of the resurgence of this decades-long disease. He didn’t create the cliff that I had been hurtling toward—but he certainly encouraged me to jump.
Slip, Not Failure: A Conversation With Mallary Tenore Tarpley
I was honored to interview Mallary Tenore Tarpley, author and journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about her new book, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.”
ADHD, Menopause, and Midlife Eating Disorders
“ I find these conversations so interesting—this conversation with you, the conversations I’m having with other women between this perimenopausal and menopausal age—because we pepper in all this estrogen and cortisol and dopamine and lack of testosterone and midlife ADHD…and you know, I think we’re piecing these things together for ourselves.”
Write Your Eating Disorder (Even When It’s Messy)
When I started writing about the eating disorder I experienced at 54 years old, I was in a writing group for midlife women. I joined the group to restart my writing practice…
About
I have worn many hats over the years as a proud Gen X woman with ADHD is wont to do: journalist, writer/editor, activist, filmmaker, and nonprofit leader. I am also the mother of two beautiful adult children who are my inspiration and guides.
For more than two decades, I have written about and amplified the complicated realities of women’s lives, bodies, and identities with a particular focus on stories often hidden by shame, stigma, and misogyny.
I live in Seattle, by the water, where I juggle leading communications for a nonprofit human services agency, am associate producing a live theater project about menopause called The Menopause Monologues coming to the Seattle Rep in April 2027, and editing an anthology about eating disorders in midlife women featuring first-person essays, interviews, poems and art called Eat Me: Essays, Poetry, & Art on Eating Disorders From Midlife Women, Third Rail Press, set for publication Spring 2028.
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