Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is the bestsellingauthorofThe Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year byTheNew York Times,TheWashington Post, theLos Angeles Times, and was recommended as a book of the year by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates. As a novelist, Alderman has been mentored by Margaret Atwood via the Rolex Arts Initiative, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. As a video games designer, she was lead writer on the groundbreaking alternate reality game Perplex City, and is cocreator of the award-winning smartphone exercise adventure gameZombies, Run!, which has more than 10 million players.She is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.She lives in London.