Laura Wood

Laura Wood is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children's Writing. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Warwick studying the figure of the reader in 19th-century literature. She is also the author of the Poppy Pym middle-grade series and YA historical romances A Sky Painted Gold (shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag YA and Beautiful Book prizes) and Under a Dancing Star.