Charlotte Wood is the author of six novels and two books of nonfiction. Her novel The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize, the 2016 Indie Book of the Year, and 2016 Novel of the Year in her native Australia, and was joint winner of the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. In 2019 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant services to literature.