Emma M. Donoghue

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright. Award-winning Irish writer now living in Canada. Her New York Times bestseller Room (2010) garnered numerous accolades, including the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Hughes & Hughes Irish Book Award; also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the Governor General's Award. Previously, published three contemporary Dublin novels, Stir-Fry (1994), Hood (1996), winner of the Stonewall Book Award, and Landing (2007). Her short story collection, Kissing the Witch (1997), a sequence of reimagined fairytales, was shortlisted for the James L. Tiptree Award. Slammerkin (2001), a novel inspired by an eighteenth-century murder, was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Fiction Prize. Other books include The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Touchy Subjects, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter and Ashtray. She also writes drama for stage and radio and has published several studies of lesbian literary history. In 2010 Inseperable: Desire Between Women in Literature  and Room. Room will be released as a feature film in 2015.