Amanda Huggins is the author of the novellas Crossing the Lines and All Our Squandered Beauty, both of which won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella, in 2021 and 2022 respectively. She has also published four collections of short fiction – Brightly Coloured Horses, Separated From the Sea, Scratched Enamel Heart, and An Unfamiliar Landscape – and two poetry collections, The Collective Nouns for Birds, which won the 2020 Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet, and talk to me about when we were perfect. Amanda's work has been published in fiction and poetry anthologies, travel guides, text books and literary magazines, as well as in publications such as the Guardian, The Telegraph, Reader's Digest, Take a Break’s Fiction Feast, Traveller, Popshot, Mslexia, Wanderlust, Tokyo Weekender and Writers' Forum. Her work has also been broadcast on BBC radio. Her travel writing has won several awards, notably the British Guild of Travel Writers New Travel Writer of the Year Award in 2014, and she has twice been a finalist in the Bradt Travel Writer of the Year Award. Her flash fiction has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Fish Prize and was included in the 2019/20 BIFFY50 list of the fifty best UK/Irish flash fictions. Amanda has also been a runner-up in the Costa Short Story Award, the Fish Short Story Prize and the Writers in Kyoto Prize, and has won the Colm Toibin International Short Story Award and the H E Bates Short Story Prize. Follow her on Twitter @troutiemcfish