M.J. Hyland

M.J. Hyland ’s first novel, How the Light Gets In (2003), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her second, Carry Me Down (2006), won the Hawthornden and Encore Prizes and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her third novel, This is How (2009), was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Prize. Her short fiction has been published in Zoetrope: All Story, BlackBook Magazine (USA), Best Australian Short Stories and elsewhere. Her non-fiction regularly features in publications such as London Review of Books, Irish Independent and the Financial Times. She worked for seven years as a commercial lawyer, and a lecturer in criminal law, before her first novel was published. She has also worked as an assistant director in film and television, and as a cadet journalist. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing in the Centre for New Writing, at the University of Manchester.