Amy Twigg was born and raised in Kent, England, and now lives in Surrey. When her debut, Spoilt Creatures, was published in the UK in 2024, Amy was selected as one of The Observer’s Best New Novelists. The novel also won the Blue Pencil Agency (BPA) Pitch Prize and was longlisted for BPA’s First Novel Award and the Mslexia Novel Competition. Amy is an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course. Milk, Bread, Teeth is her second novel.