The Weekend (Wood) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1965
• Where—Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
• Education—B.A., Charles Sturt University; M.A., University of Technology Sydney; Ph.D., University of New South Wales
• Awards—(see below)
• Currently—lives in Sydney, Australia


Charlotte Wood is an Australian writer and the author of six novels. She was born in Cooma, New South Wales, and received her B.A. from Charles Sturt University. She went on to earn a Masters in Creative Writing from University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales. Woods currently lives in Sydney, Australia.

The author's novels include The Weekend (2019), The Natural Way of Things (2015), Animal People (2011), The Children (2007), The Submerged Cathedral (2004), and Pieces of a Girl (1999).

Her nonfiction works include The Writer's Room (2016), a collection of interviews with Australian writers, as well as Love & Hunger (2012), a collection of personal reflections on cooking. Woods also edited an anthology of writing about siblings, Brothers & Sisters (2009).

Recognition
2014 - Chair of Arts Practice, Literature, at the Australia Council for the Arts
2016 - Stella Prize, Indie Book Awards Novel of the Year and Book of the Year (for The Natural Way of Things)
2016 - Writer in Residence Fellowship, University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. (Wood brought together award-winning novelists and world-leading researchers to discuss complex topics of aging.)