Roisín O'Donnell

Roisín O'Donnell is an award-winning Irish author. Roisín’s debut short story collection, Wild Quiet, was published in 2016; it was listed as one of The Irish Times's Favourite Books of 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award and the International Rubery Book Award and longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Ulster, Roisín’s stories have been published internationally, featuring in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times and elsewhere. Two of her stories were selected for inclusion in major anthologies of Irish women's writing, The Long Gaze Back (2015) and The Glass Shore (2016), both of which won Best Irish-Published Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.

Roisín has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Brighton Prize, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Most recently, in 2020 she was awarded a major Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Roisín’s parents come from Derry city. She grew up in Sheffield, and now lives in County Meath. She has two young children, and works in the field of education. She is currently writing her first novel.