About

Amanda Ottaway is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, VICE, espnW, Washington City Paper, Charlotte Magazine, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and a few poetry anthologies. She currently works as a senior employment reporter in Law360’s Manhattan office.

Her first book, The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey, was published in 2018 by the University of Nebraska Press. She’s represented by literary agent Laurie Abkemeier of DeFiore and Company. 

She is an International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) reporting fellow and a 2017-2018 Girls Write Now mentor. Previously she worked as the Brooklyn reporter for Courthouse News, covering New York City courts and politics, and at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C. 

Amanda grew up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She attended Davidson on a full scholarship for women’s basketball.

Amanda lives in Brooklyn, New York.