About Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood's latest novel Animal People (2011) has been
described as ‘superb storytelling’ by The Australian, while The Age called her “one of the most intelligent and compassionate novelists in Australia”.

She is the editor of the short fiction collection Brothers & Sisters (2009) which featured 12 of Australia's finest writers exploring sibling relationships.

Wood's 2007 novel The Children was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Association’s literary fiction book of the year. Her earlier novel, The Submerged Cathedral, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in its region in 2005. Her first book, Pieces of a Girl, was also shortlisted for several prizes.

She writes a cookery blog at www.howtoshuckanoyster.com. Her book of personal essays about the emotional and symbolic terrain of cooking, Love & Hunger, will be published in May 2012 by Allen & Unwin.

She lives in Sydney and is writing her fifth novel.

See Charlotte's writing room on Literaryminded, here.

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