Amanda Huggins is the author of the award-winning novellas All Our Squandered Beauty and Crossing the Lines, as well as six collections of short stories and poetry. Amongst others, her work has been published by Harper’s Bazaar, Mslexia, Popshot, Tokyo Weekender, the Telegraph, Traveller, Wanderlust, and the Guardian. Three of her flash fiction stories have also been broadcast on BBC radio.

She has won numerous awards, including three Saboteur Awards for fiction and poetry, the Kyoto City Mayoral Prize, the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award, the H E Bates Short Story Prize and the BGTW New Travel Writer of the Year. She has placed in the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition, the Costa Short Story Award, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award, and been shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Prize and many others.

Amanda lives in Yorkshire, England and works as an editor. Her forthcoming novella, The Blue of You, will be published by Northodox Press in October 2025.