Danielle McLaughlin

Danielle McLaughlin is an Irish author. Danielle McLaughlin’s stories have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The New Yorker, Southword, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and, and have been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. Her debut collection of short stories Dinosaurs on Other Planets was published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press in 2015, and subsequently in the UK (John Murray), US (Random House), Germany (Luchterhand), Uruguay (alter ediciones) and Slovakia (Inaque). She edited Counterparts, an anthology of work by writers with legal backgrounds, published in November 2018 by The Stinging Fly Press, proceeds in aid of Peter McVerry Trust. In 2019, she was a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient and won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Her first novel, The Art of Falling, was published in 2021 by John Murray and was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2022. In 2023 she was a recipient of a Markievicz Award.