Amanda is a two-time Tin Duck Award winner, an Aurealis and Ditmar Awards finalist and author of several science fiction and thriller novels. Her works include the best-selling military SF/space opera Aurora series (previously published by Momentum Books/Pan Macmillan Australia), alien contact drama The Time Of The Stripes, and sci-fi noir Salvation series, consisting of The Subjugate and The Sensation (published by Angry Robot Books, UK).

The Subjugate is being developed for TV by Anonymous Content (True Detective, Mr Robot, The Alienist) and Aquarius Films (Lion, Berlin Syndrome, Dirt Music).

Amanda wrote the procedural thriller, Pandemic: Patient Zero – the first novel set in the award-winning Pandemic tabletop board game universe, released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK).

Her X-Men short story, Eye Of The Storm, part of the Marvel: School of X anthology was released worldwide through Aconyte Books (UK).

Her new novel Sound of Light, part of the Marvel: School of X line, will be released worldwide in November 2022 through Aconyte Books (UK). 

Amanda was recently shortlisted for the Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship as part of the 2020 Premier’s Book Awards. She is also a proud Ambassador for Australia Reads.