Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and author of three novels. Black Rock (Serpents Tail) won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, a NAACP award nomination, was shortlisted for McKitterick Prize, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Her second novel, A Kind of Eden, set in contemporary Trinidad (2013) was optioned as a TV series. Her third novel Fortune (Peepal Tree Press, 2021) is based on the tragic 1928 Dome fire in Trinidad and was shortlisted for the 2022 Walter Scott prize for historical fiction.
