Nish Amarnath is an author, narrative strategist, and founder of Lanecraft Lab, a boutique strategic services firm and storytelling studio that supports mission-driven individuals and organizations through moments of transition, reinvention, and visibility.
She is the author of three books, including Victims For Sale (HarperCollins), a bestselling thriller nominated for the Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Award and recognized by the U.S. State Department for spotlighting the realities of human trafficking involving differently abled women. Nish has shared her voice as an author at the British Council, United Nations associations, and national and international literary forums.
Nish founded Lanecraft Lab in May 2025, following a recalibration that reaffirmed her commitment to story, presence, and purposeful voice.
A former journalist and newsroom leader, she reported for The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TheStreet.com, and S&P Global across Europe and the Americas, and served as Editor at Industry Dive and Managing Editor at one of Europe’s most prolific magazine publishing groups. In 2017, she was featured as an outstanding journalist on the Hall of Fame as part of the AMMYs Awards across North America. Her reporting and hosting work has spanned climate change, public policy, workers’ rights, AI, Roe v. Wade, metaverse dynamics, LGBTQ+ issues, equity, and mental health.
Earlier in her career, she was a public diplomacy advisor to the UK Government, and a consultant to the World Bank.
Nish holds post-graduate degrees in media communications and journalism from the London School of Economics and Political Science (where she was a Margot Naylor Scholar) and Columbia University (as a James W. Robins Reporting Fellow), where she trained under Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind. Nish is a member of International Thriller Writers, Romance Writers of America, the New York Writers Workshop, Society for American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), and South Asian Journalists Association. She enjoys singing, painting, reading, swimming, traveling, cooking, and wine-tasting. She is crazy about cats. A former Londoner, she lives and writes in New York.
