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/Headline (2024), and Amy was selected as an Observer ‘Best New Novelist’ of the year. Her second novel, Milk, Bread, Teeth, publishes in the UK and US in January 2027.

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‘Gluttonous, audacious and altogether a delectable work of genius. Amy Twigg is the new harbinger of horror.’ – Lucy Rose

‘I devoured this book and it devoured me right back. Compulsive. Amy Twigg is a rare talent.’ – Jennie Godfrey 

‘A mukbang in book form, this is a ravenous, transgressive novel that sinks its teeth into class, loneliness and the impossible demands we make of women's bodies. Grotesque, hypnotic and wickedly intelligent, it left me queasy and exhilarated, desperate for one more bite. Amy Twigg is one of the most exciting new voices in literary horror.’ – Seth Insua

‘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