2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Elaine Feeney

Ireland

ELAINE FEENEY is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award and won the Kate O’Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise, and her short story “Sojourn” was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Her work appears widely in The MothThe Paris ReviewThe Stinging FlyPoetry Review, and elsewhere. Feeney lectures at the University of Galway.

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