Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry collections including, The Radio was Gospel & Rise. Her debut novel As You Were won the Dalkey Emerging Writer Prize, The Kate O’ Brien Prize, Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the
Elaine Feeney writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has published three poetry collections including, The Radio was Gospel & Rise. Her debut novel As You Were won the Dalkey Emerging Writer Prize, The Kate O’ Brien Prize, Society of Authors’ McKitterick Prize, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was shortlisted for the Rathbones-Folio Prize. Her second novel, How to Build a Boat was published in 2023 and was longlisted for The Booker Prize, shortlisted for Novel of the Year at Irish Book Awards and won Tatler’s Literature Award, 2023. Feeney’s short fiction was published in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories and she has published widely including The Paris Review, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Poetry Review and The Guardian. A new collection, All the Good Things You Deserve has just been published by Penguin Random House in 2024. She lectures at University of Galway.
