Amanda Smyth

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was born in Ireland. She is the author of Black Rock (2009),  A Kind of Eden (2013) and Fortune (2020). She has won the Prix du Premier Roman prize, was nominated for an NAACP award, shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read.  Amanda teaches creative writing at Arvon, Skyros in Greece, and at Coventry University. She lives in Leamington Spa with her family.