Amanda Tink is a blind and neurodivergent creative, personal and academic essayist. She researches the influence of impairment on writing, most recently in a PhD on the poet Les Murray, who was autistic. Her essays have been published in a range of venues including Sydney Review of Books, Overland, ArtsHub, Seizure, Wordgathering, Australian Literary Studies, and Southerly.
Her chapter "‘If You’re Different Are You the Same?’: The Nazi Genocide of Disabled People and Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune" featured in Genocide Perspectives VI was shortlisted for the 2021 Woollahra Digital Literary Award in the nonfiction category. She also co-edited Writing Disability in Australia, a special issue of the Australian Literary Studies Journal, with Sciene Write Now's co-founder Jessica White. She lives in front of her laptop and braille display with good coffee nearby and tweets at @amandatink