Sarah Moss

Sarah
Moss

Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland, which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.

Photo Credit: Sophie Davidson

Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland, which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.

Photo Credit: Sophie Davidson

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