Luan Goldie Books & Biography

<b>Luan Goldie</b> is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She has written several short stories and is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her short story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 2018 and the <i>Grazia</i>/Orange First Chapter competition in 2012, and was chosen to take part in the Almasi League, an Arts Council-funded mentorship programme for emerging writers of colour. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the h100 awards in the Publishing and Writing category.

Her debut novel, <i>Nightingale Point</i>, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was also a Radio 2 Book Club pick. <i>Homecoming</i> is her second novel.