Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her second novel, How to Build a Boat (Harvill Secker) was published in 2023. Her 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. Her work has been widely published including, The Paris Review, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Review and Oxford Poetry. Feeney lectures at the University of Galway.