Caitriona Lally has published two novels, Eggshells (2015) and Wunderland (2021). Eggshells was shortlisted for the Newcomer Award at the Irish Book Awards and the Kate O'Brien Debut Novel Award. In 2018, Lally won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 2019. She was the inaugural Rooney Writer Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2022. She works as a cleaner in Trinity College Dublin.

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