Ms. Amy Goldstein

Creative Writing Mentor

Amy Goldstein is a staff writer for the Washington Post, where she reports nationally about social issues. Goldstein joined The Post in 1987 and worked for a decade as a local education writer and regional health care reporter before moving to the newspaper's national staff to cover heath policy. From 2001 to 2004, she covered the White House with an emphasis on domestic policy issues, such as Medicare, Social Security, welfare and the federal judiciary. Goldstein also has been extensively involved in covering other major news stories of recent years. They include the Monica Lewinsky scandal and impeachment of Bill Clinton, the killings at Columbine High School, the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, early casualties of the Iraq war, recent Supreme Court nominations, and the criminal trial of a senior White House aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Goldstein previously worked as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun and the Ledger-Star and Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. A native of Rochester, N.Y., she holds a degree in American Civilization from Brown University. In 2002, she was part of a team of Post reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the newspaper's coverage of 9/11 and the government's response to the attacks. She spent 2004-05 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.