NAOMI BOOTH is an award-winning writer and academic, named as a Fresh Voice: Fifty Writers to Read Now by the Guardian in 2018. She was born and raised in West Yorkshire and now lives in York.
Her first work of fiction, The Lost Art of Sinking, was selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional campaign and won the Saboteur Award for Best Novella 2016. Her debut novel, Sealed (Dead Ink Books, 2017) is a horrifying tale of body mutation and environmental contamination, described by the Guardian as “not for the faint-hearted… a marvellous first novel” and shortlisted for the Not the Booker Award.
Her short fiction has been longlisted for the Times EFG Short Story Award and the Galley Beggars Short Story Prize, and is anthologised in the Best British Short Stories 2019 (Salt). She was commissioned to re-write the regional folktale of the boggart for the Audible Original series HAG. She published her first short story collection, Animals at Night, in 2022.
Naomi read English at the University of Cambridge and has an MA and PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She worked for several years as an editor, and has taught creative writing in different settings for the last decade, including on MA courses at the University of Sussex and as Subject Director of Creative Writing at York St John University.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction, experimental fiction, genre fiction (horror, speculative fiction, cli-fi), novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction
- Location: York and Durham
- Possible meeting place: York Art Gallery Café
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