Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of THE WILD LAUGHTER (2020), which won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was a finalist for three other awards. Her first novel, ORCHID & THE WASP (2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and was a finalist for four other awards. Her short fiction won the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year, The Moth Short Story Prize, and an O.Henry Prize. She has been Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. THE ALTERNATIVES is her third novel.