Amie Ferris-Rotman
Amie Ferris-Rotman
Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American journalist and editor based in London.
Twitter/X: @Amie_FR
Biography
Amie Ferris-Rotman is a British-American writer and editor based in London with over two decades of experience in journalism, primarily as a reporter. She began her career at Reuters in 2006 and went on to hold various roles at the agency, including extended postings in Moscow and Kabul. During her time there, she reported extensively on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, with a focus on women’s rights.
She later worked in Moscow with Foreign Policy and The Washington Post, where she conducted an award-winning investigation into the treatment of ethnic Kazakh women in Chinese internment camps.
Over the course of five years, Amie has held various leadership positions with Washington, D.C.-based newsrooms The Fuller Project and New Lines Magazine, where she has spearheaded global coverage of reproductive rights and the fallout from the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Her contribution to the magazine, in which she wrote about being pregnant in modern Russia, earned first place from the Society for Features Journalism.
In 2013, Amie was named a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She is the founder of Sahar Speaks, a programme dedicated to training and publishing Afghan female journalists. In recognition of her work in Afghanistan, she received a 2016 British Press Award. She also serves as a founding trustee of Rukhshana Media, a charity supporting Afghan women journalists.
Amie holds a bachelor and master’s degree in Russian studies from University College London.
Books
Zahra Joya’s memoir, The Vanishing Girl of Kabul (written with fellow journalist Amie Ferris-Rotman) was published by Little Brown in 2026.
‘A memoir that doubles as a warning. Zahra Joya writes for the women the world abandoned to the Taliban's brutal gender apartheid - and refuses to let us forget them. [She] is one of the bravest journalists of our time.’ Malala Yousafzai, education activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history
‘Beautifully written and powerfully told. Joya's story will leave you angry, but also awed that in this painful history there's still profound hope. An impressive memoir of a truly inspiring individual’ Lyse Doucet author of The Finest Hotel in Kabul
‘A brave and beautiful book which touches the soul, the heart and the mind.’ Sandi Toksvig
‘This is an important book, and Joya an important voice. She has a poetic turn of phrase that brings beauty to an otherwise horrific tale.’ Lucy Thynne, The Telegraph