Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW , and Swing Time , as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind , Feel Free , and Intimations , and a collection of short stories, Grand Union .
These days she works freelance--illustrating, writing, and designing children\'s books from her flat in south London..
She studied English at the University of Exeter and since moving back to London in 2015, has been working as a children\'s book designer.
Magenta Fox was born in southwest London in 1994.
His latest collection Feel Free was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award and the Derek Walcott Prize.
He is on faculty at New York University and Professor of Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen\'s University in Belfast.
Nick Laird is the recipient of many prizes for his poetry and fiction, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, the Betty Trask Prize, a Somerset Maugham award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women\'s Prize for Fiction.
White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award.
Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta \'s 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW , and Swing Time , as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind , Feel Free , and Intimations , and a collection of short stories, Grand Union
