Amy Liptrot is the author of two books, The Outrun and The Instant, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers.
The Outrun was awarded both the Wainwright Prize in 2016 and the PEN Ackerley Prize in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, 2016 and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, 2017. It was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and has been translated into 15 languages.
A film of The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt and starring Saoirse Ronan was released to wide acclaim in 2024. A stage adaptation, written by Stef Smith and directed by Vicky Featherstone for The Lyceum theatre, debuted at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2024.
The Instant was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2022.
Amy writes columns and reviews for publications including the Guardian and Caught by the River. In 2021 she presented the BBC Radio 4 series The New Anatomy of Melancholy. Her work has also been included in the anthologies, Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland and Goodbye Europe.
A new book, The Tangles will be published in May 2026.
