Born in Dublin in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a full-time fiction writer and poet, is living in County Galway.

She has worked as an arts administrator in theatre and in a writers' centre; as a translator, as a bookseller and also in a university library.

[1] Ní Chonchúir was featured in The Irish Times "People to watch in the year ahead" on Saturday 3 January 2009.

[9] The story "Peach", from the collection, was published in Prairie Schooner's Winter 2011 issue and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize.

[15] Miss Emily was shortlisted for the Eason Book Club novel of the Year 2015[16] and was nominated for the 2017 Dublin International Literary Award.

"[19] "… one of Ireland's most unusual and creative minds; [her fiction is] dressed in modernity, a ritual playing of the bones of Irish storytelling.

As with Brendan Kennelly’s ground-breaking collection of poetry, Cromwell, it is satisfying to sit down with a book that sets itself an explorative, self-questioning agenda, full of witty voices rendering adventures both savage and absurd."