'Roisín O'Donnell breaks the bounds of the short story... O'Donnell has innovated with a texture and depth not often encountered in the short form.' - The Sunday Independent
Author Roisín O’Donnell, photographed by Barry Cronin
Roisín O'Donnell is an award-winning Irish author.
Roisín won the prize for Short Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2018, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022. She is the author of the story collection Wild Quiet, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award. Her short fiction has featured in The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, the Irish Times and many other places. Other stories have been selected for major anthologies such as The Long Gaze Back, and have featured on RTÉ Radio. Her debut novel Nesting will be published in 2025. Roisín is represented by Eleanor Birne at PEW Literary. She lives near Dublin with her two children.