Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of three novels. Fortune (2021) was shortlisted for the James Taitt Black Prize, and Black Rock, won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger. An Oprah Winfrey Summer Read, and Waterstones New Voice, she has been nominated for an NAACP award and shortlisted for McKitterick Prize. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in New Writing, London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Harvard Review and BBC Radio 4.
