Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. She is the author of Property Journal (Book Works, 2024), a journal documenting conversations and experiences of property; Baby Book (Brick Books, 2023), finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in Poetry; and Looty Goes to Heaven (Eastside Projects, 2022), a historical fiction about a small dog stolen from China by British soldiers. Her most recent publication 83% Perfect (The Goldfarb Gallery, 2025) is a children's book about complicity. Amy teaches creative writing in the English department of New York University. She was born in Hong Kong and lives in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn.