Christine Dwyer Hickey (born 1960) is an Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright.

She has won several awards, including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year[1] and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

[2] Her writing was described by Madeleine Kingsley of the Jewish Chronicle as "depicting the parts of human nature that are oblique, suppressed and rarely voiced".

[5] Her childhood has informed some of her work particularly Tatty, a story of a marriage breakup from the child's point of view.

[15] A review in the Irish Times compared her short stories to Joyce's Dubliners,[16] and the poet John Montague has likened her work to that of Katherine Mansfield.