Lynley Hood (born 1942) is an author from New Zealand.

The Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner won first prize at the 1980 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards.

[1] Minnie Dean: Her Life & Crimes was a finalist in the 1995 New Zealand Book Awards.

[1] In 2002, City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case won the Readers' Choice Award and the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

[4] Hood received the 1991 Robert Burns Fellowship.