Niamh Boyce
Represented by Nicola Barr
Niamh Boyce writes poetry, novels and short fiction. She was awarded The Hennessy Award for New Irish Writer of The Year in 2012. In her bestselling novels, she has fictionalized real-life criminal trials. Her bestselling debut THE HERBALIST won Debut of the Year at The Irish Book Awards and was long listed for an IMPAC. It was also an inaugural Irish Writers Center Novel Fair winner. Her novel HER KIND, was based on the Kilkenny Witchcraft Trial and nominated for the EU Prize for Literature.
An award-winning poet, Niamh Boyce was Hennessy XO New Irish Writer Of The Year in 2012. Her unpublished poetry collection was highly commended in The Patrick Kavanagh Award 2013.
She lives in the Irish midlands where she is working on a new novel, and a short story collection.