Benjamin Wood was born in 1981 and grew up in Merseyside. He is the author of five acclaimed novels, most recently SEASCRAPER, which won the Nero Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025; it is soon to be translated and released in eleven further languages. His first book won France's Prix du Roman Fnac and Prix Baudelaire in 2014. His other works have been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Costa First Novel Award, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, the European Union Prize for Literature, the Commonwealth Book Award, and the RSL Encore Award. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College London, where he founded the PhD in Creative Writing programme. He lives in Surrey with his wife and sons.