Amy Hegarty

Amy Hegarty is a writer and editor covering the arts and culture. She was born on Long Island, New York, and began studying piano at age three and switched to violin at age five, eventually enrolling with her three sisters at the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College's Aaron Copland School of Music. During her first two years as an undergraduate at Rutgers University, she was a member of the school's orchestra. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, she worked as a travel editor for Fodor's and Rough Guides, and for three years she was a publications editor for the New York Philharmonic, where she edited the orchestra's program notes and award-winning podcast series. In 2010 she moved from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, until June 2015, she was the editor of the Santa Fean, a bimonthly arts and culture magazine, and Santa Fean NOW, a weekly nightlife and entertainment magazine that she cocreated and launched. From April 2016 to March 2018 she hosted the weekday radio program Afternoons with Amy on Classical 95.5 KHFM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in Playbill, Santa Fean, Santa Fean NOW, and Su Casa magazines; in The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper; and on roughguides.com and nymag.com. She also writes for several classical music organizations. In 2003 she earned a master's degree in English from New York University.

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