Education/qualifications:

Trinity College Dublin, 2017-2018: MPhil in Creative Writing

Professional/creative awards:

• Writer Fellow. Trinity College Dublin. 2022
• John McGahern Award, 2021, for The Weight of Love: best Irish fiction debut
• Broadsheet Columnist of the Year, 2019: News Brands Ireland Journalism Awards
• National Theatre writer in association, 2004: Abbey centenary year
• Shortlisted, Newcomer of the Year, 2016, for Hopscotch: Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards
• Shortlisted, Novel of the Year, 2021, for The Weight of Love: Dalkey Literary Awards.

Published or performed work:

• Fiction: The Weight of Love, novel, 2020, published by Doubleday
• Memoir: Hopscotch, 2015, published by Doubleday
• Plays: Mackerel Sky, Bush Theatre, London, 1997 (Methuen); Doldrum Bay, Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 2003 (Methuen), and in translation in Germany and Canada; Red Ball, Abbey outreach, 2004 (Abbey); Phaedra, for Rough Magic theatre company, Project, Dublin, 2010 (Methuen); Famished Castle, for Rough Magic, Pavilion Theatre, 2015

Collaboration:

Sleeping Around, written with Stephen Greenhorn, Abi Morgan and Mark Ravenhill, Donmar Warehouse, London, and internationally, 1998 (Methuen)

Radio plays for BBC and RTÉ:

Evelina, Red Feathers, Drop Zone, and others

Journalism:

Freelance feature writer, TV and book reviewer and, for the past decade, weekly columnist, all at The Irish Times

Teaching:

Ten years as a volunteer at Fighting Words creative writing centre, co-creator and mentor of a national playwriting programme for young writers. Co-author of “Making A Scene” The Young Playwright’s Programme for Fighting Words.

She is currently Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin where she teaches on the Masters Programme in The Oscar Wilde Centre.