Elaine Feeney is a writer of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction, and a lecturer at the University of Galway. She has published three poetry collections, including The Radio was Gospel & Rise. Her debut novel, As You Were, won Dalkey Book Festival’s Emerging Writer Prize, The Kate O’ Brien Prize, The Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and for the Rathbones-Folio Prize. She was chosen by The Observer as a top ten debut novelist. Her short fiction has been published in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Her works have appeared in such publications as The Paris Review, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland, Oxford Poetry, and The Guardian. Her second novel, How to Build a Boat, was nominated for The Booker Prize, shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, named Best Fiction 2023 by The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, and The Irish Times, and won the Tatler Women’s Award for Literature 2023. Her latest poetry collection All the Good Things You Deserve was published in 2024 by Vintage. Her next novel, Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way will be published by Vintage, Penguin Random House in June 2025.