Email Author Amy Silverman

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 20, 2011

  "Unbalanced"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Shadow Dwellers"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 11, 2008

  "Mommy Dearest"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 7, 2008

  "Postmodern McCain"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 16, 2008

  "Love the War, Neglect the Warrior"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 7, 2008

  "Postmodern McCain"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 14, 2008

  "The Daily Show"

• 2007 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published November 2, 2006

  "Teenage Wasteland"

• 2006 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published November 25, 2004

  "Up the Down Staircase"

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1998 Stories by Amy Silverman

• My Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer, the Car

  published June 18, 1998

  Joe Arpaio likes to call himself the Country's Toughest Sheriff. Now Rick Romley's angling for the title "Sportiest County Attorney." For... More >>

• Arizona and the Siege of the Rangers

  published June 11, 1998

  The dawn of a new campaign. It's 7:25 a.m., Tuesday, March 3, at the foot of the steps to Old Main, the University of Arizona's trademark... More >>

• Smoke and Beers

  published June 4, 1998

  He didn't get around to mentioning John McCain by name until five pages into his speech, but it was clear Steven Goldstone came to Phoenix last... More >>

• Butt Out

  published June 4, 1998

  The head of a local campaign finance reform initiative drive has accused a tobacco company lobbyist of trying to give his campaign a "poison pill"... More >>

• Newspaper Chase

  published May 21, 1998

  The Arizona Republic made national news earlier this year when the paper's managing editor called 60 laid-off employees "fat, lazy, incompetent... More >>

• Waiting for McCain

  published May 14, 1998

  As one of the few Republicans in Congress to support a campaign-finance reform proposal--heck, he plastered his name all over it--U.S. Senator... More >>

• Accountants Payable ?

  published May 14, 1998

  Most Arizonans have never heard of Ben Friedman, but he belongs in a lineup with Fife Symington and Charlie Keating. Symington ripped off a... More >>

• Junior College Confidential

  published May 7, 1998

  Promotional materials for Jim Martin's nonfiction expose on the Maricopa Community College District promise the book "reads like fiction." ... More >>

• Heading Off a Rumor

  published May 7, 1998

  When a college journalist mistook George and Jerry for lovers on the celebrated Seinfeld episode "The Outing," George offered to have sex with... More >>

• Framing Marilyn Zeitlin

  published April 30, 1998

  Stephane Janssen almost died last year, so Marilyn Zeitlin sent him some flowers. Zeitlin, director of the Arizona State University Art... More >>

• Down for the County

  published April 23, 1998

  Last year, Maricopa County employee Yolanda Robinson reported her co-worker, Joe Coulter, for sexual harassment. Apparently her complaints have... More >>

• Logan's Shun

  published April 2, 1998

  Michael Richard Logan was sentenced March 27 to three years' probation--including alcohol and anger counseling--for assaulting Kimberly... More >>

• Sandra-Prowling

  published March 12, 1998

  March has gotten off to a lousy start for Maricopa County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling. The attorney general is investigating her office.... More >>

• Colonel Sandra?

  published March 5, 1998

  County schools chief Sandra Dowling once called herself the governor of Maricopa County--after all, she was elected by all the people of the... More >>

• Personal Justice

  published February 26, 1998

  For five days this month, Kimberly Boyden and Michael Logan sat in a courtroom where the most personal, embarrassing details of their lives were... More >>

• John McCain Breaks Up a Fight

  published February 12, 1998

  Senator John McCain likes to play on the national stage; that's why many of his constituents were startled January 30 to find him taking off after... More >>