Elaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland and she lectures at The National University of Ireland, Galway. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio was Gospel and Rise. She wrote the award-winning piece for the Liz Roche Company, WRoNGHEADED and her short story Sojourn was included in The Art of The Glimpse, 100 Irish Short Stories, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Feeney has published widely, most recently in Poetry Review, Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Copper Nickel Journal, The Guardian, The Irish Times and Oxford Poetry.

Her debut novel As You Were won the 2021 Kate O’ Brien award and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, Rathbones Folio Prize and was an Observer Best Debut of 2020. As You Were featured in various Best of 2020 lists including The Telegraph, Herald (Scotland), Irish Independent, Evening Standard, Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Foyles and Irish Times. She was chosen by The Observer as a top debut novelist for 2020. Feeney works on Creative Writing and Community Output on the Tuam Oral History Project at the National University of Ireland, Galway, archiving the first-person histories and narrative from this time.

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