ABOUT AMANDA TIEN

Amanda Tien (she/her or they/them) is a writer, visual artist, and marketing strategist. She grew up on the move as the daughter of a U.S. Army officer and a teacher, developing passions for adventure, service, community, and stories.

Her writing and artwork has been published or is forthcoming in Litro Magazine, Public Books, Poets.org, Salt Hill Journal, Unwinnable Monthly, Call Me [Brackets], and Columbia College Today. Recently, Amanda completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction at the University of Pittsburgh where she studied the craft, wrote drafts of two novels, taught writing, founded a community-building initiative for grad students, and from 2021 - 2023 served as the Managing Editor of transnational feminist literary journal Aster(ix). Since 2022, she has been an Editor at The Punished Backlog, a video game blog with 10,000 monthly readers.

For the past ten years, she has worked, both full-time and as a freelance consultant, to provide marketing strategy and design support for dozens of social impact groups. Prior to freelancing, she was the inaugural mar/comm hire at Camelback Ventures, and proudly served for 2.5 years as the Director of Creative & Marketing. She also worked for Y&R Advertising and the National Academy for the Advancement of Teacher Education.

She also holds a BA in Creative Writing from Columbia University where she co-founded and led Culinarian Magazine.

Her work can be viewed at www.amandatien.com