Amanda Tink

Dr. Amanda Tink is a proud disabled person with intense interests in Australian disabled authors, and crip memoir and poetics.

Her essays have been published in a range of venues including The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books, Overland, ABC, and Text. She was commissioned to write for the anthologies Someone Like Me: An anthology of non-fiction by Autistic writers (UQP, 2025), and Second City: Essays from Western Sydney (Giramondo, 2021),and won the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for nonfiction.

She lives in front of her laptop and braille display with good coffee nearby, and tweets at @amandatink.