Sinéad Gleeson

Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish author and artist. Her essay collection, ''Constellations: Reflections from Life'', won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was published in the US by Mariner Books and translated into several languages. She is the editor of ''The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers'', ''The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland'' and ''The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories''.

Gleeson has also engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians, including commissions from City Gallery Wellington, The Wellcome Collection, BBC and Frieze. In 2021, she collaborated with composer Stephen Shannon and artist Aideen Barry on an installation, By Slight Ligaments, for the Limerick City Gallery and artirts Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon on another installation, The Map / We Are The Map, for the Rua Red. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of ''This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music'', published by Hachette Books in 2022.

Her debut novel, ''Hagstone'' was published by 4th Estate in April 2024. Provided by Wikipedia