Benjamin Wood is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College London, where he teaches fiction modules and founded the PhD in Creative Writing program. His first novel The Bellwether Revivals was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won one of France's foremost literary awards, Le Prix du Roman Fnac. His second novel, The Ecliptic, was shortlisted for the Encore Award and was a finalist for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award in 2016. He lives in Surrey, England, with his wife and sons.