 Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales.She is the author of six novels – "Pieces of a Girl" (1999), "The Submerged Cathedral" (2004), "The Children" (2007), "Animal People" (2011), "The Natural Way of Things" (2015) and 'The Weekend' (2019).She has also written a collection of interviews with Australian writers, "The Writer's Room" (2016), a collection of personal reflections on cooking, "Love & Hunger" (2012).