Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Actress, was published in 2020. Enright has written two collections of short stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather (2009) and a book of non-fiction called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (2004). 

She won the Irish Novel of the Year twice, in 2008 and in 2015. In the same year Enright was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish fiction.