Roisin O'Donnell
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Roisín O'Donnell is an Irish author with family roots in Derry city. Her collection of stories Wild Quiet was published by New Island Books in 2016 to critical acclaim. Her short stories have featured in The Stinging Fly, Tangerine Magazine, The Irish Times, Hennessy New Irish Writing and elsewhere. In 2018, she won the An Post Irish Book Award for Short Story of the Year. Roisín lives near Dublin with her two young children.
Her debut novel, Nesting, will be published by Scribner in the UK and Algonquin in the US in 2025.