I am thrilled to share that my book, “Eat Me: Essays, Poetry, & Art on Eating Disorders From Midlife Women”, is coming Spring 2028, from Third Rail Press.

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A native New Yorker shaped by decades in the Pacific Northwest, Amie has built a career as a storyteller first and foremost. With a deep and abiding passion for uplifting the voices of women of all backgrounds and identities, her work as a storyteller has always centered the intimate, complex truths of our bodies—truths so often silenced by stigma, shame, and structural neglect. From reproductive health to motherhood, abortion to aging, she writes not just about these issues, but through them—braiding her lived experience as a woman with other women’s experiences into a broader narrative of resistance, reckoning, and repair.

Newman served as Managing Editor and Senior Staff Writer at the UN Foundation’s award-winning  RH Reality Check (now Rewire News), which won a Planned Parenthood Maggie Award in 2010 under her editorial guidance as well as nominations for Webby Awards for Best Political Website and Best Health Website, where she covered reproductive health policy, access to care, and maternal health—writing extensively about issues from abortion politics to breastfeeding equity to the intersections of human rights and reproductive health.

Her writing has been cited in numerous books on reproductive rights, childbirth, violence against women, and public health.

Amie’s articles and personal essays have been published in Truthout, Lillth Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Entropy, Open Secrets Magazine, Role Reboot, Rewire News, Our Bodies Ourselves, Bright Magazine, Midstory Magazine, The Manifest Station, and Kveller among other publications.

Newman was also a contributor to the 2011 edition of the seminal book Our Bodies, Ourselves and was the site’s staff blogger, covering topics like racial disparities in maternal mortality and the realities of pelvic organ prolapse. She helped shape digital storytelling at the Gates Foundation, co-creating content for the blog Impatient Optimists to amplify global health initiatives.

She held editorial roles at various women’s health digital publications including the now defunct Ask Me About My Uterus (though the book exists!),  was poetry editor for Our Truths, Nuestras Verdades, served as the Board President of Pro-Choice Washington, contributed to one of the longest running sex-ed digital clearinghouses Scarleteen, and managed communications for a feminist abortion clinic in Seattle, where she edited one of the first abortion storytelling books to be used in clinics throughout the country.

Newman’s devotion to uplifting the stories and lives of women around the world, and supporting local efforts to improve women’s health, brought her to rural India, through her work at the Gates Foundation, where she interviewed women who lead grassroots efforts to expand access to family planning. She also worked with Jacaranda Health  to open safe birthing centers in Nairobi. As an independent consultant, Amie worked with global foundations including the International Women’s Media Foundation, Foundation for a Just Society, NoVo Foundation, and the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

She interviewed Melinda Gates about motherhood and was invited to share a table discussion on white feminism with Jada Pinkett Smith, Rachel Cargle, and Justina Machado.

After graduating from New York University, Newman had a brief career in television production, working for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Club MTV, and Michelob Presents Night Music, among others. She received a Certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Washington, and as a fledgling filmmaker, produced short documentaries about women and body image, the volunteer simplicity movement, and feminist activism. She was also an associate producer on the short film ¡Poder!

Currently, Amie is the head of communications for a large Seattle-based nonprofit human services organization, is associate producer for The Menopause Monologues, a theatre production coming to Seattle in April 2027, and continues to write personal essays and poetry. 

She lives in Seattle by the water with her partner, where she is learning to play the guitar and co-leading women’s circles on rituals, myths, and story-sharing for perimenopausal and menopausal women. Most importantly of all, Newman is the proud mother of two brilliant humans who inspire her everyday. In her “spare” time, she is an abortion doula, a certified yoga teacher, a lover of music, films, nature, and most of all, her beautiful community of friends and family.