About Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood has been described as “one of the most intelligent and compassionate novelists in Australia” (The Age), and “one of our finest
and most chameleonic writers” (The Australian).

Her latest work is a book of essays on cooking, Love & Hunger: Thoughts
on the Gift of Food. Her latest novel, Animal People, won the People's Choice medal in the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, was shortlisted for
the 2013 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2012
Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Her earlier novels were shortlisted for various prizes, including the
Miles Franklin Award and regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

She is editor of The Writer's Room Interviews magazine, and writes a cookery blog at www.howtoshuckanoyster.com. She lives in Sydney with her husband and is working on her fifth novel.

See Charlotte's writing room on Literaryminded, here.

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