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Samantha Harvey has published two novels, The Wilderness and All Is Song. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. She was recently named by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists.
She has contributed to Granta magazine and to Granta online, has held a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, and is a member of the Academy for the Folio Prize.
She lives in Bath, UK, and teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.