Sheila Armstrong

Sheila Armstrong is a writer and editor from the north-west of Ireland. How To Gut A Fish, her first collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award and the Edge Hill Prize. Falling Animals, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Society of Authors Awards and the Irish Book Awards. She is an Arts Council Next Generation Artist.

She is represented by Marianne Gunn O’Connor and published by Bloomsbury in Ireland, the UK and Australia.