Roisin Meaney (born September 1959), is an Irish novelist based in Limerick.
Roisin Meaney was born in Listowel, County Kerry, though her family moved to Tipperary town before she was one.
Meaney qualified as a primary teacher and taught in Dublin before spending two years in Zimbabwe.
Meaney switched to job-sharing to allow more time for writing until, four years later, with three published novels and another on the way she took early retirement from the classroom and became a fulltime writer.
Her nineteenth novel, The Book Club was published in June 2021 and she's currently working on the next, due out in summer 2022.