Naomi WOOD is the bestselling author of The Godless Boys, Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game. Her novels have won a Jerwood Award, the British Library Hay Festival Prize, and been shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Historical Writers Golden Crown. Her début story collection is This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, (Orion (UK) and Mariner (US)), which includes the 2023 BBC National Short Story Prize winner, ‘Comorbidities’. Her interests are complicated femininity and transgressive motherhood, especially in the modern workplace. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.