About

I am the author of BINA – A Novel in Warnings (NYRB, Knopf Canada, Fleet, Little Brown UK) which won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. I also wrote the 2015 Giller Prize shortlisted, acclaimed novel MARTIN JOHN, which was also a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and The (UK) Goldsmiths Prize. Martin John received Editors’ Choice in the New York Times and was named on many Best Books of 2015 lists. My debut novel MALARKY (2012) won the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the 2013 Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. It was named on 16 Best Books of 2012 lists and was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

I have appeared at writers festivals all over Canada, the US, in Europe and Asia. I have written for newspapers including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Globe and Mail, The National Post. I also have contributed to the London Review of Books blog.

I have also authored a paste-up art book Rereading the Riot Act and On, related to a curatorial residency I undertook with UNIT-PITT projects. My recent anthology publications include: The Long Gaze Back – An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, edited by Sinéad Gleeson (New Island 2015), Alchemy – Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction (Notting Hill Editions, 2016) and Little Star – edited by Ann Kjellberg (2013).

I am exclusively represented by Sarah Chalfant and Jessica Bullock at The Wylie Agency. 

All inquiries related to my work, interviews, commissions, festival invitations or readings need to go to the Wylie Agency.

Thank you for reading!