Naomi Wood

Naomi Wood (born 1983) is a British novelist and short story writer, and associate professor in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Wood in 2022

Early life and education

Wood was born in 1983 and grew up in Yorkshire and in Hong Kong. She studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and has a masters in creative writing and a PhD from the University of East Anglia.[1] Her novel Mrs Hemingway formed part of her doctoral thesis (2013), which had the title "Mrs Hemingway: A novel; What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway".[2]

Writing career

Wood's first novel was The Godless Boys (2012), a dystopian story set in an alternative future.[3]

In 2012 she was awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award (then the Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award) to work on her Mrs Hemingway.[4] The novel was published in 2014 and is about Ernest Hemingway and his four wives. It won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.

Her third novel The Hiding Game (2019) is set in the Bauhaus art school in the 1920s.[1][5] It was shortlisted for the HWA Gold Crown.[6]

Her story "Comorbidities" won her the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award, and is included in her first short story collection This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, to be published in 2024 by Phoenix.[7][8]

Wood is associate professor in creative writing at the University of East Anglia.[9] She has also taught part-time at Goldsmiths, University of London.[10]

Selected publications
  • Wood, Naomi (2011). The Godless Boys. Picador. ISBN 9781447293132.
  • Wood, Naomi (2015). Mrs. Hemingway. London: Picador. ISBN 9781447226888.
  • Wood, Naomi (2019). The hiding game. London: Picador. ISBN 9781509892785.
  • Wood, Naomi (2024). This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Phoenix. ISBN 978-1399615891.

References
  1. "A little about me". Naomi Wood. 20 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  2. Wood, Naomi (October 2013). "Mrs Hemingway A novel What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway". UEA Digital Repository. University of East Anglia. School of Literature and Creative Writing. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  3. Wood, Naomi (8 May 2012). "Paperback Q&A: Naomi Wood on The Godless Boys". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  4. "Naomi Wood". The British Library. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. Edemariam, Aida (3 August 2019). "The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood review – art and lies". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  6. "The winners! The HWA Crown Awards 2020". Historia Magazine. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  7. Creamer, Ella; Wood, Naomi (26 September 2023). "Bestselling author Naomi Wood wins 2023 BBC national short story award". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2023. Includes full text of story
  8. Brown, Lauren (21 June 2023). "Phoenix pre-empts Naomi Wood's first short story collection". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  9. "Naomi Wood". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  10. "Dr Naomi Wood". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 11 October 2023.


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