Amy Rose Spiegel (born December 16, 1990)[1] is a writer and editor. She is the author of Action: A Book About Sex (Grand Central Publishing, 2016) and NoOne Does It Like You: And 77 Other Illustrated Affirmations (Workman, 2019) and a senior editor at Broadly.
Spiegal was a story editor at Rookie,[2] where she wrote about music, drugs, sex, and body acceptance, as well as hosted a makeup video tutorial series.[3]
She became an associate editor at BuzzFeed the day after she graduated from college in December 2012 while contributing to Rookie as a staff writer, later leaving BuzzFeed to take her editing role there.[4]
She has also been a contributor to Dazed, Rolling Stone,[5]NME and MTV.[6]
On May 17, 2016, Spiegel published her first book Action: A Book About Sex with Hachette imprint Grand Central Publishing.[7]
Reviews note Grand Central positioned the book as self-help, though it might also be classified as memoir, with Spiegel interspersing advice with her own experiences: "Spiegel inserts her own narrative within the instruction, which makes the book less like a textbook and more like it’s a long, handwritten letter covered in cool stickers from a best friend or older sister."[8]InSlate, Christina Cauterucci described Action as "a sex advice book for a new, progressive generation, one whose views on sex are informed by a basic ethos of fluid sexuality, body positivity, and feminist responses to rape culture."[9] Writing in The Guardian, Laura Snapes said the book struck the tone of "a wise and experienced companion, whose belief in the reader, whom Spiegel addresses frequently, feels like a dare to trust that you could follow her confident and charming lead."[10]
On April 2, 2019, Workman published Spiegel's second book, No One Does It Like You: And 77 Other Illustrated Affirmations.[11] The book collected and expanded on Spiegel's monthly illustrated advice column for Lenny Letter.[12]
Spiegel created the website Enormous Eye.[13] Launched on Valentine's Day 2015, the Enormous Eye is a collection of essays with contemporary writers recording their thoughts and activities over the course of one Saturday. Contributors have included Tavi Gevinson,[14]Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Doreen St. Félix, among others.[15]
