Amy Waldman is the author of the novels A Door in the Earth, about America’s war in Afghanistan (written in part at MacDowell in 2018); and The Submission, about post 9/11 America, which was a New York Times Notable Book, one of NPR’s top ten novels, and Esquire’s Book of the Year. She was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years, including three as co-chief of the South Asia bureau, and she was a national correspondent for the Atlantic. She has taught journalism at NYU and Princeton.
Waldman’s writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, and the Boston Review. She has been a fellow at the Omi International Arts Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
During her 2025 MacDowell residency, she worked on Snow: An Emotional History (Ecco, 2026), a work of creative nonfiction.
