Naomi Wood is the award-winning and best-selling author of The Godless Boys, and the historical novels Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game (Picador). Her début short story collection This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things is out now with Orion.
Her story ‘Comorbidities’ won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Prize, and others have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, and the ALCS/Tom Gallon Society of Authors Prize. She lives in Norwich where she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.