Aimee knight
she/her
Aimee Knight is an Autistic writer, editor and cultural critic. A former staff writer at The Big Issue, she has also edited the magazine’s film and small screens pages. Her work is published by Literary Hub, The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Meanjin and more.
In 2020, Aimee was a runner-up in the KYD New Critic Award. The following year, she was chosen for the prestigious Berlinale Talents program, where she was the only Australian practitioner of any discipline selected from over 3000 global applicants. She’s an alumna of the Tin House Workshop, and she’s mentored at Melbourne International Film Festival’s Critics Campus and Melbourne Women In Film Festival’s Critics Lab. She’s spoken on radio, podcasts and at writers festivals, and was recently appointed to the board of Access2Arts: the peak body for d/Deaf and disabled artists in South Australia. She is passionate about, and fascinated by the ways in which art, childhood, nostalgia and neurotype shape our adult selves.
Supported by a $50,000 fellowship from CreateSA, Aimee is writing her first book—the hybrid memoir Heart of Felt: How Jim Henson’s Muppets Taught Me to Be a Person. An offbeat hero’s journey across America, into the collective unconscious, the work explores Aimee’s lifelong love of Kermit the Frog, and her 30-year journey to learn that she’s Autistic (though the first thing should have made the second thing much shorter). Heart of Felt looks at life through a neuroqueer lens, which Aimee hopes will dispel common stereotypes of the Autistic experience, particularly for women, girls and gender-diverse people.
Aimee lives, works and learns on stolen Kaurna yerta in South Australia. She spends her downtime with her partner, Bec, their goofy orange cat, Waffles, and an ever-growing family of Furbys.