Sinéad Gleeson
Sinéad Gleeson (born 1974 in Dublin) is an Irish writer, broadcaster, journalist and artist. She studied English and History at University College Dublin and lives in Dublin with her husband, composer Stephen Shannon, and their two children.
Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. The book was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and has been published in the United States by Mariner Books and translated into several languages.
As an editor, she led The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, which won Best Irish Published Book of the Year at the 2015 Irish Book Awards. She also edited The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, which won Best Irish Published Book of the Year in 2016.
In 2019 Gleeson was Arts Council Writing Fellow in residence at University College Dublin. She co-edited This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music with Kim Gordon, published by Hachette Books in 2022.
Her debut novel Hagstone was published in April 2024 by 4th Estate and longlisted for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award.
Gleeson has worked as a presenter on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Book Show. She has also collaborated on multidisciplinary art projects with organizations such as City Gallery Wellington, the Wellcome Collection, the BBC and Frieze, including installations in 2021 with Stephen Shannon, Aideen Barry, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. In addition to her writing, she is known for these artistic collaborations.
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