Abby Seiff is an award-winning writer and editor with ample experience in managing diverse teams and a long track record of shepherding exceptional stories from pitch through publication.

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She most recently worked as an investigative editor for Radio Free Asia, where she worked closely with reporters around the globe - as well as creative, legal, and security teams - to produce hardhitting reports on everything from Chinese transnational repression to Myanmar military kidnappings to how TikTok ​is encouraging risky US border crossings.

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Abby previously worked as an editor for Foreign Policy, Devex, New Humanitarian, and ChinaFile, among others, as well as at The Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post. In 2019, she helped conceptualize, produce, and launch Asia Society Magazine, which was a Society of Publication Designers Print Merit winner. She also developed the Mekong Review Weekly, a newsletter with an open rate double the industry standard. 

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Abby's reporting has appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Economist, Pacific Standard, Al Jazeera, and more. 

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She is the author of Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia, a narrative nonfiction book that explores how families are coping amid the destruction of the Mekong river and which won the 2025 Lois Kahn Wallace Writers Award. 

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Her reporting has garnered several other awards and grants, including an International Reporting Project fellowship, a Logan Nonfiction fellowship, and a residency at Yaddo. She recently recieved an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College, where she was the recipient of a Himan Brown award.

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Abby can be contacted at aseiff@gmail.com.