About Amy
Amy Serafin lives in Paris, though she first learned to speak French in her hometown of Buffalo, New York. Before crossing the Atlantic she spent several years in Toronto, where she acted professionally, wrote comedy sketches for The Second City and created radio documentaries for the CBC.
She moved to France during the Mitterrand years, and since then she’s witnessed political cohabitation, grands projets, transport strikes and World Cup victories. Her experiences have become fodder for hundreds of print and broadcast stories in North America, France and elsewhere.
She has covered culture and the arts for The New York Times and National Public Radio, design for Wallpaper, news for Agence France Presse, fashion for Hong Kong Prestige, travel for France Magazine, and she is associate editor of the Zagat guide to Paris restaurants. For seven years she put her intimate knowledge of the French capital to use as editor in chief of Where Paris magazine, a monthly magazine distributed in luxury hotels.
Serafin is one of the few independent journalists to write about humanitarian issues for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her work for the ICRC and others has led her to such disparate destinations as Nepal, Georgia, Ethiopia, Turkey and Burma.
