Amy Liptrot
Amy Liptrot is a British journalist and author. She won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2017 and the Wainwright Prize 2016 for her memoir The Outrun.Biography
The Outrun describes her experience of returning to live in Orkney, where she grew up on a farm, to continue her rehabilitation after ten years in London, during which she had resorted to alcoholism and drug use.
Liptrot lives in Orkney with her only child, a son, and in 2019 had been without alcohol for eight years.
