Caoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her first novel, Orchid & the Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book
Caoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her first novel, Orchid & the Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards’ Story of the Year, The Moth Short Story Prize, and an O.Henry Prize. She was recently Oscar Wilde Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. The Alternatives is her third novel.
