Naomi Ishiguro was born in London, in 1992. Her debut novel, Common Ground, was published by Tinder Press in the spring of 2021, and her collection of stories, titled Escape Routes, was published in the spring of 2020. She’s a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s MFA Creative Writing Programme, and spent two years in her early 20s working as a bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. She now balances her writing with a career in teaching.