About Amy
Amy Cavanaugh lives in Chicago, where she writes and edits stories about food and drink, travel, and visual arts for magazines and newspapers. She has explored biodynamic wineries in Nova Scotia, eaten her way through Taipei, gone gallery hopping with artists, trailed Barbie collectors at their annual convention, and uncovered the best new Chicago hotels. Amy regularly writes about food and drink trends and reviews gallery shows, but she’ll cover any good story.
Amy is the weekend editor at Chicagoist, and covers food, the arts, and local news for the site. Her writing has recently been published in the Chicago Tribune, Plate Magazine, Time Out Chicago, CS, The A.V. Club, and other print publications and websites. She also covers restaurants and the arts for CBS Chicago. Past outlets include Capitol File, Washington Flyer, the Washington Post Express, Washington City Paper and DC Modern Luxury.
Amy is originally from Massachusetts, and spent four years in Washington, DC (she misses Ben’s Chili Bowl and free museums!) before moving to Chicago in 2010. She has an M.A. in English from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.
Amy also teaches writing workshops and tutors Chicago Public School students at 826 Chicago. In her free time, she can be found indulging her love of books, baseball, dive bars, and bourbon.
To contact Amy about freelance writing, editing, or copy editing, e-mail her at amy.cavanaugh@gmail.com.
