Luan Goldie is a Glasgow-born author and primary school teacher who grew up in East London.
Her debut novel, Nightingale Point, was longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. It was also a BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Book Club Pick. In 2018 she won the Costa Short Story Award and her short stories have since appeared in HELLO!, Sunday Express and The Good Journal.
Her second novel, Homecoming, was released by HarperCollins in 2020 and her third novel, These Streets, will be released in June 2022.
Skylar and the K-Pop Headteacher (Walker Books, 2024) is her first children’s book.