Amy Twigg was born and raised in Kent, where her obsession with remote landscapes and gypsy tarts began. After studying Creative Writing at university, she moved to Surrey where she works as a freelance copywriter. Her debut novel Spoilt Creatures won the BPA Pitch Prize and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. She is also an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course. Spoilt Creatures was a lead title for Tinder Press (June 2024), and Amy was selected as an Observer ‘Best New Novelist’ of the year.

You can follow Amy on Twitter and Instagram

Photo credit: Hester Barnes

‘Emma Cline’s The Girls meets Lord of the Flies, Spoilt Creatures is compelling, cultish and utterly feral. I’m drinking the Amy Twigg Kool-Aid, and it tastes like blood and rotten summer berries. A firecracker of a debut.’ – Alice Slater

‘A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods – haunting, exhilarating and full of female rage.’ – Jennifer Saint

‘A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage.’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

‘Lush and dreamlike – a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread.’ – Colin Walsh