Shauna Gilligan is a fiction writer from Dublin, Ireland. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (University of South Wales), is a registered teacher with the Teaching Council of Ireland, a member of the Arts Council of Ireland Writers-in-Prisons Panel and a Professional Mentor with the Irish Writers’ Centre. Shauna’s short fiction and reviews have been published widely including in The Stinging Fly (Ireland), New Welsh Review (UK), she has been longlisted for awards such as the Bath Short Story Award, and was placed second in the 2017 Dromineer Literary Festival Flash Fiction Competition. Her debut novel, Happiness Comes from Nowhere (2012), was described by the Sunday Independent as ‘thoroughly enjoyable and refreshingly challenging’. She has received numerous awards for her writing including an Arts Grant for Literature and the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Bursary for Literature in 2015, and a Government of Ireland Creative Ireland Award in 2021 (Kildare County Council).

Twitter: @ShaunaGilligan1

Website: shaunagilliganwriter.com