Biography

Amanda Sington-Williams grew up in Cambridge and Liverpool and left school at 16. She has lived in Japan, Spain and Australia and has had a variety of jobs including teacher of English, bar work, film extra and model. She worked with homeless people for many years, was a co-ordinator for domestic violence policy for a local authority and managed a community centre in north London .

Her poetry has been read out on BBC radio.Many of her short stories have been selected for readings or published in magazines and anthologies. Her first novel 'The Eloquence of Desire was published in 2010.

Amanda has an MA in Creative Writing and Authorship from Sussex University.

She teaches Novel Writing at The Hanover Centre in Brighton and is a freelancee writer.

She lives in Brighton with the artist, David Williams