Los Angeles-based writer, artist and founder of Original Plumbing.
Photo by Sela Shiloni
Amos Mac brings two decades of interdisciplinary work to the table as a writer, visual artist, magazine editor, and independent publisher. Experiencing multiple coming-of-age narratives from the deep south to the northeast and finally landing on the west coast, Mac’s work explores the delights and flaws of trans visibility and inspects the blending of public and private trans lives.
Amos currently works as a television writer and producer for projects including the forthcoming Norman Lear comedy series Clean Slate (Amazon Freevee), Gossip Girl (HBO Max), supernatural drama The Left/Right Game (Amazon), and Y: The Last Man (FX for Hulu). He held support staff roles on Amazon’s Transparent and AMC's The Son before landing his first staff writing gig.
Amos Mac gained prominence in art book publishing in 2009 as a founding editor of Original Plumbing, the first U.S. magazine dedicated to the culture and community of trans men. Featuring Mac's photography and writing, Original Plumbing concluded its ten-year run with a book, Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture, published by The Feminist Press.
As a photographer, Amos Mac has exhibited in galleries internationally, was featured in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Interview, and Vogue Italia, and lives on in multiple museum collections. He shot the groundbreaking Fall '15 campaign for Swedish fashion brand & Other Stories, featuring an all trans cast and crew. The iconic collaborative series he created with artist Zackary Drucker formed the content of his 2011 art publication Translady Fanzine, with an alternative selection of images exhibited as Distance is Where the Heart is, Home is Where you Hang Your Heart, at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
A 2018 Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat Fellow for Young Adult fiction, Amos returned to Lambda’s Writer’s Retreat in 2022 as their first ever screenwriting faculty member. His personal story was featured in the HBO documentary The Trans List, and he’s been honored on the OUT 100 and the TRANS 100.