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Amos Mac (born 1981) is an American writer, photographer and a publisher from Augusta, Georgia. Mac is based in Los Angeles as a writer for television and film .
In 2011, he went on a national tour with feminist art group Sister Spit where he showcased photographs, read his writing and spoke candidly about trans representation in the media.
In 2015 Amos Mac photographed a campaign for H&M's sister brand, & Other Stories, which became the first fashion campaign created by an all-transgender cast and crew. The campaign featured models Hari Nef and Valentijn De Hingh.
In June 2016, it was announced that Mac would be featured in The Trans List an HBO documentary film produced by Janet Mock along with director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Mock also interviews the cast, which features ten prominent transgender figures besides Mac: Laverne Cox, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Buck Angel, Kylar Broadus, Caroline Cossey, Shane Ortega, Alok Vaid-Menon, Nicole Maines, Bamby Salcedo and Caitlyn Jenner.
In The Trans List, Mac describes his life before transitioning. "I really don't know why I was waiting for so long," Mac says. "It seemed like it was no longer an option for my sanity or for my health. I had to stop spending so much time trying to cover up my emotions and my problems, and I had to deal with myself."
Amos Mac sat for photographer Mark Seliger for his 2016 book of photographs On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories.
With Aisling Chin-Yee, Mac co-wrote No Ordinary Man, a Canadian documentary that premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is a portrait of Billy Tipton, the influential jazz musician who was revealed after his death to have been transgender.
In 2018, after being named a Lambda Literary Writers' Retreat Fellow for Emerging LGBT Voices, it was announced that Mac was writing a young adult novel.
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