Amy Anshaw-Nye (she/her) is a queer writer, zinester and essayist living and working on unceded Darug land in Western Sydney. Her works explore themes of love, transformation, madness, redemption, and queer identity.

She is a WestWords Academy alum and was a recipient of the 2023 WestWords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency. She has served as a judge for the Dymocks Beyond Words Writing Competition, Fisher’s Ghost Writing Prize, and The Living Stories Writing Prize. She enjoys facilitating workshops for emerging writers.

She is also founder of a zine press, where she publishes zines about life, pop culture, and queer love.

Amy’s prose can be read in a variety of literary publications including BAD Western Sydney, ZineWest, and Verandah Journal.

Her current fiction project is Ebb Tide, an historical sapphic romance novel set in 1960s Australia. She is also working on a memoir.

You can find Amy on Instagram @amyanshawnye and subscribe to her newsletter on Substack.