Lucy Wood

Lucy Wood is a British short story writer and novelist who grew up in Cornwall, where all her books are set, and took a master’s degree in creative writing at Exeter University. Her first collection, Diving Belles (2012), drew on Cornish folklore; one of its stories was runner-up for the 2013 BBC National Short Story Award. Her first novel, Weathering (2015), received a Betty Trask Award in 2016. A second collection, The Sing of the Shore, followed in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She has also received a Somerset Maugham Award.

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