Dr Tamarin Norwood

Dr Tamarin Norwood is a writer and academic with a background in fine art. Her acclaimed memoir The Song of the Whole Wide World describes her grief for her second son, Gabriel, who was diagnosed with anhydramnios during pregnancy and died shortly after birth. Tamarin has worked with national baby loss charities to research the experience of baby loss and develop resources for parents. She collaborated with Held In Our Hearts to create therapeutic writing resources for parents bereaved at birth, and is now working with Held in Our Hearts, Sands, Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) and others to learn from bereaved parents about the rituals they create when cultural narratives fail to serve them. Her essay ‘Something Good Enough’ won the Lancet Wakley Essay Prize in 2021 and she is currently a Leverhulme early career research fellow at the University of Loughborough and a visiting scholar at the Universities of Bath and Oxford. Her next book will explore early childhood, its ways of understanding knowledge, wonder and threat, and their relationship to maternal and ecological time.