Amy Silbergeld is a graduate student and research assistant in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is also a teaching assistant in the graduate school's Department of Arts & Humanities.

She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and is the author of RAINN: a novel (with Matthew Landis, 2014), and her poetry and critical writings have appeared in publications including Fence, NAP, metazen, HOUSEFIRE, and The Rumpus. She was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Death Hums, a magazine with an associated reading series held at Webster Hall in Manhattan. She directed the short film Tasked (forthcoming).

Her current research interests include emotional regulation and the role of psychoanalytic thought in the construction of secular Jewish identity. She is also working on creating more short films and writing short fiction.