Naomi Wood
Naomi Wood is the award-winning author of three novels, The Godless Boys (2011), Mrs. Hemingway (2015) and The Hiding Game (2019), and the short story collection, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (2024). Her stories have been published in the Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Joyland and Stylist, and have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Story Prize. ‘Comorbidities’ won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award.
Mrs. Hemingway has been translated into sixteen languages, won a Jerwood Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and was a Richard and Judy Book Club Choice. The Hiding Game, set in the Bauhaus in the 1920s, was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and shortlisted for an HWA Gold Crown.
Naomi lives in Norwich with her family, and teaches creative writing at UEA and Curtis Brown Creative.