Naomi Wood is the critically acclaimed author of three novels: The Godless Boys, Mrs Hemingway and The Hiding Game. Naomi has a PhD from UEA where she is Associate Professor teaching prose fiction. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Galley Beggar Press Prize and the ALCS/Tom Gallon Society of Authors Prize.  ‘Comorbidities’ won the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award and is published in This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (2024), a wry collection of contemporary short stories about modern womanhood, parenting and the complexities of how these two things interact with the workplace. She recently wrote on X that she is ‘obsessed with the finicky perfection of the short story’.

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