Luan Goldie is a Glasgow born author and primary school teacher who grew up in East London. Her debut novel Nightingale Point was longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. It was also a BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club Pick. Her short stories have appeared in Hello! magazine, Sunday Express, Candis, Resist: Stories of Uprising and The Good Journal. She is also the winner of the Costa Short Story Award. Her second novel Homecoming was released by HarperCollins in 2020.