Finuala Dowling (born June 1962) is a South African poet and writer.
[1][2] The seventh of eight children born to radio broadcasters Eve van der Byl and Paddy Dowling, Finuala Dowling obtained an MA in English from the University of Cape Town (UCT), and a D.Litt.
[1][3] Her first poetry anthology, I Flying, was published in 2002 and won the Ingrid Jonker Prize.
She won the 2012 M-Net Literary Award (English category) for Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart.
Dowling lives in Kalk Bay, Cape Town with her daughter Beatrice, who also writes poetry.