Luan Goldie

Luan Goldie 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 217 for her short storyTwo Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns'. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize in 218 and the Grazia/Orange First Chapter competition in 212, and was chosen to take part in the Almasi League, an Arts Council-funded mentorship programme for emerging writers of colour. In 219 she was shortlisted for the h1 awards in the Publishing and Writing category. Nightingale Point is her debut novel and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 22 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.