[1] She is the author of seven novels – Pieces of a Girl (1999), The Submerged Cathedral (2004), The Children (2007), Animal People (2011), The Natural Way of Things (2015), The Weekend (2019), and Stone Yard Devotional (2023).
She has also written a book about creativity, The Luminous Solution (2021), a collection of interviews with Australian writers, The Writer's Room (2016), and a collection of personal reflections on cooking, Love & Hunger (2012).
In 2016 The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize, the Indie Book Awards Novel of the Year and Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for various other prizes including the Miles Franklin and Barbara Jefferis.
[6] In May 2016, it was announced that Wood won the Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.
[7] As an Honorary Associate, Wood has been working with health specialists to offer literary views on the complex topic of ageing.