Lisa McInerney

Lisa McInerney is a novelist, short story writer, essayist and screenwriter from Galway. She is the author of three novels: The Glorious Heresies , The Blood Miracles and The Rules of Revelation . She has won the Womens Prize for Fiction, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the RSL Encore Award and the Premio Edoardo Kihlgren for European literature, and has been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Sunday Times Short Story Award, and twice for the Dylan Thomas Award. Her work has featured in Winter Papers, Granta, The Guardian, Le Monde, Vogue CS, The Irish Times, BBC Radio 4 and numerous anthologies. She is published in 11 languages. In 2022, she was appointed editor of The Stinging Fly, one of Irelands most prestigious and established literary journals.Having had the privilege in the past few years of travelling abroad with my work in translation, McInerney is eager to champion contemporary Irish fiction, and has a particular interest in supporting emerging writers. Of specific concern are questions about access to the arts and how best to support and empower working-class artists.McInerneys novel-in-progress examines how one might navigate trauma through creativity, particularly through reading and writing transgressive or disturbing works.