Amy Scholder is an American literary editor and documentary filmmaker known for publishing works by marginalized and especially LGBTQ writers, artists, musicians, and activists.
13 Facts About Amy Scholder
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Amy Scholder attended Tufts University for two years, then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley.
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Amy Scholder began her career as an editor at City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1985.
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Amy Scholder added to its list by publishing books by Karen Finley, Gil Cuadros, Rebecca Brown, Leslie Dick, Carla Harryman, Marguerite Duras, George Bataille, and Laure.
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Amy Scholder moved to New York City in 1995 when Serpent's Tail, an independent literary publisher in the UK, offered Amy Scholder and Silverberg a US imprint which they named High Risk Books.
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Amy Scholder edited books for High Risk and Serpent's Tail until 2004.
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Amy Scholder began editing books for Verso in 1999, and became their US publisher in 2005, where she acquired books by Laura Flanders, Judith Butler, Kate Millett, and Valerie Solanas, whose SCUM Manifesto was reprinted with an essay by Avital Ronell.
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Amy Scholder left to join Seven Stories Press as editor-in-chief in 2006, and acquired books by Coco Fusco, Ulrike Meinhof, Elfriede Jelinek, Annie Ernaux, Savannah Knoop, Douglas Martin, and hattie gossett.
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In 2008, Amy Scholder left Seven Stories to become the executive editor of the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
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In 2015, Amy Scholder left the Feminist Press and returned to Los Angeles.
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Amy Scholder produced with Sam Feder the documentary feature film Disclosure, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance FilmFestival and was released as a Netflix Original in June 2020.
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Amy Scholder became an executive producer of the film, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
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Amy Scholder joined the Board of Directors of the City Lights Foundation in 2020 and previously served on the Board of Directors of Lambda Literary.