Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of The Wild Laughter (2020), which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. Her first novel, Orchid and the Wasp (2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards’ Story of the Year, The Moth Short Story Prize, and an O. Henry Prize. She was a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library for 2023-4. The Alternatives (2024) is her latest novel.