Amanda Marie Marcotte (born September 2, 1977) is an American blogger and journalist who writes on feminism and politics from a liberal perspective.

[6] She graduated summa cum laude from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas with a degree in English literature.

[19][20][21] Marcotte is the author of It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments (2008), Get Opinionated (2010) and Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself (2018).

[22] The illustrations of It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments, featuring a blonde woman in a tropical forest battling various mobs of brown-skinned people, were widely criticized as racist, and Marcotte and publisher Seal Press issued an apology; Seal Press also stated any future print runs of the book would have different illustrations.

[28] She stated in 2024 that her boyfriend is Marc Faletti, who “owns a record store called Latchkey in Philadelphia”, and that she has three cats.