Hamya is from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father.
[2] Hamya graduated from King’s College London and University of Oxford.
[4] Hamya began her career as a copy editor for Tatler and a bookseller at Waterstones.
Hamya was 22 when she wrote her debut novel Three Rooms and 24 when it was published in 2021[5] via Jonathan Cape, as announced in 2020.
[8] Hamya co-hosts the Booker Prize Podcast with James Walton.