Amy Malloy

Amy Malloy is a UK-based author-illustrator with a brain full of silly, creative spaghetti, that sees words as colours and feels things deeply. A big kid at heart, she’s passionate about children's storytelling and communication in all its forms, especially when it brings play, inclusion, and connection back into the world. She holds an MA Hons in French and Spanish from Oxford University and an MA Hons in Illustration from Falmouth.

After a career in children’s publishing with Oxford University Press, she trained as a yoga teacher, but soon realised she simply couldn’t keep the stories in any longer and decided to let the words and pictures burst out professionally. ​She works in an embodied, conscious way with words and materials to explore the best fit to tell a story. An embarrassingly obvious people-watcher, she loves finding the story in quirky, bold characters and daft animals, as well as in the walls of a gorgeous building. She’s also not afraid of diving into the bones of more emotional and softer stories.

She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, their chaotic puggle, their entitled matriarchal cat, and their two small humans, one of whom is smashing life navigating the world with a beautifully autistic brain. When not creating you’ll find her dunking a milk chocolate hobnob in tea, wild swimming (complete with massive bobble hat and flamingo thermometer), reading, listening to an eclectic music taste (think Kelly Clarkson and Foo Fighters) or binging 90s rom-coms.