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Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life, was published by Picador in 2019 and won Non- Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writers. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Michel Déon Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories. Sinéad also collaborates with artists and musicians, with commissions from The Welcome Collection, BBC, Frieze and various galleries. In 2022, with Kim Gordon, she co-edited This Women’s Work: Essays on Music, published by White Rabbit Books. Hagstone, her first novel, was published by Harper Collins in April 2024.

Nuala O’Connor lives in Galway, Ireland. Her sixth novel, Seaborne, about Kinsale-born pirate Anne Bonny was published in April 2024 by New Island. Her novel, Nora (New Island), about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, was a Top 10 historical novel in the New York Times. She won Irish Short Story of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards and is editor at flash e-journal Splonk. You can find her at www.nualaoconnor.com