Amy Braunschweiger

Amy Braunschweiger is an American-born freelance writer and author of Taxi Confidential: Life, Death and 3 A.M. Revelations in New York City, published by 671 Press. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Tango, The Wall Street Journal, Worth, The Village Voice and The New York Sun, and New York magazine, among other publications. Her work has also appeared in Germany's Welt am Sonntag and Leipziger Volkszeitung. Braunschweiger was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. She currently lives in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Braunschweiger also serves on the five-member board that oversees the Vietnam Relief Effort, a charity that has been involved in humanitarian public works projects in Vietnam since 1999.