Amanda Fortini has written about art, design, architecture, fashion, and aesthetics for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, I.D., Interview, Elle, and Slate, among other publications. She was the Beverly Rogers Fellow at Black Mountain Institute and has been a visiting lecturer at the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is particularly interested in women artists and the issues they face. 

Fortini’s work on other subjects has appeared in Vanity Fair, California Sunday, The Believer, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Wired, The Paris Review, Gay Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. She has worked as an editor at Mirabella, The New York Review of Books, and Slate, has been a contributing editor at Elle, and has been the William Kittredge Visiting Professor at the University of Montana and a Miriam Shearing Fellow at Black Mountain. Her essays have been widely anthologized, including in Best American Political Writing and Best of Slate, and she was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award.