Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish novelist and short story writer.

[2] Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet Press, 2014),[3] won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award in 2015.

She was a James Merrill House Fellow in Stonington, CT in 2016.

[9][10] In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story "Prime".

[11] She won the An Post Irish Book Awards' writing.ie Story of the Year 2020.