Amanda Katz is an American journalist and writer based in New York, New York. She is a senior editor at CNN Investigates, editing national investigations for CNN.com. ^[1]

Katz earned an MFA in poetry from Brown University, where she also taught creative writing.

She spent five years at the Boston Globe, where she edited the Ideas section, served as deputy editor of Living/Arts, and co-edited a Spotlight series, "Private Schools, Painful Secrets".

Before that, she spent five years as an editor of nonfiction and fiction books at Bloomsbury USA. She has worked as a freelance editor and coach for authors and dissertation writers, and she has translated a number of books from French for Abrams