Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes’s latest novel is The Alternatives, a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Previously, The Wild Laughter won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and her debut Orchid & the Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards’ Story of the Year, The Moth 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.