About Amy Lord

Amy Lord is a writer, blogger and digital marketer from North East England. Her debut novel, The Disappeared, was first in 2019 and will be reissued in May 2024 by SRL Publishing.

She won a Northern Writers’ Award in for The Disappeared and was also longlisted in the inaugural Bath Novel Award. An earlier manuscript saw her shortlisted for Route Publishing’s Young Yorkshire Author Award.

Amy is currently working on a new novel. She also writes short stories and flash fiction and has had work published by Reflex Fiction, The London Reader and Palm-Sized Press. Her story, Mrs McKinnon Retired on Friday, was a finalist in the Mslexia Short Story Prize in 2023. Her work has been supported by grant funding from the Society of Authors and Arts Council England.

She blogs about books, writing, travel and life in the North East at Ten Penny Dreams, which won Best Arts and Culture Blog in the Northern Blog Awards 2017.