Sarah Moss

Moss is novelist, travel writer and academic, teaching in the University of Warwick's Writing Programme. She has written five novels, The Tidal Zone (Granta, 2016), Signs for Lost Children (Granta, 2015), Bodies of Light (Granta, 2014), Night Waking (Granta, 2011) and Cold Earth (Granta, 2009). She was born in Glasgow, but moved to Manchester as a young child and lived there until she left for Oxford at eighteen. She spent ten years in Oxford, taking a BA, Master of Studies and D.Phil in English Literature and then held a postdoctoral research fellowship. She developed my two main research interests, in the literature of the far north and in food and material culture in fiction, specializing in the Romantic and early Victorian periods. She is now Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.