Amanda Uhle

Amanda Uhle writes about culture, politics, and civil rights for the Washington Post, Politico Magazine, the Boston Globe, and Newsweek. Uhle is co-editor of the I, Witness series of first-person stories by youth activists, published by Norton for Young Readers, director of the 826michigan youth writing and tutoring program, and co-founder, with Dave Eggers, of the International Congress of Youth Voices. Their work with youth writing organizations worldwide is documented in Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire (McSweeney’s, 2020). Uhle is the publisher & executive director of McSweeney’s, an independent nonprofit publisher of distinctive books & magazines.