Her collection of short stories, Dinosaurs on Other Planets (2015),[1] won the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for fiction[2] and the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
[3] Her novel The Art of Falling (2021)[4][5] was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
[6] Aoife O'Regan described The Art of Falling for RTÉ as a "family drama set in Cork, where absolutely everyone is flawed".
[7] Martina Devlin described it in the Irish Independent as "a novel about how people hurt one another emotionally, yet somehow find a way to move beyond those wounds.
"[8] McLaughlin lives in County Cork with her husband John, and their three children Ellie, Áine and Rory.