Wood was born in 1981,[16] to parents who separated before he reached adulthood,[17] and grew up in Southport.[18] His childhood was spent in a nursing home run by his parents.[19]
As a young man, Wood realised he had a gift for fiction when his sixth-form teacher was convinced that the dramatic monologue he had written for an assignment had been plagiarised from an existing work.[20] At the age of 17 he abandoned his A-levels in the hope of pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter, but narrowly failed to get a record deal.[21] He went on to gain a BTEC in art and design, followed by a degree in screenwriting from the University of Central Lancashire.[22] A Commonwealth Scholarship, obtained in 2004[23] with the help of a reference from the writer Michael Marshall Smith,[22] enabled him to obtain a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.[24] While living in Vancouver Wood was the fiction editor of Prism International.[23]
After returning from Canada Wood worked for several years as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London,[19] co-founding and directing their undergraduate creative writing programme.[7] In 2016 he joined King's College London, where he is a senior lecturer in creative writing.[7] He lives in Surrey with his wife and sons.[1]
Bibliography
—— (2012). The Bellwether Revivals. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0857206954.
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