Naomi Booth Author

Naomi Booth is the author of two previous works of fiction: The Lost Art of Sinking and Sealed. She was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign in 2017 and she was named one of the Guardian’s Fifty Writers to Read Now in 2018. She is the recipient of a Saboteur Award for Best Novella, and has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, BBC Radio 3, and as part of the Audible Original series Hag. She completed her PhD research on the literary history of swooning and teaches at Durham University. She has spent most of her life in Yorkshire: she was born in Bradford, grew up in Dewsbury, and now lives in York.