Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, and the literary anthology Winter Papers among others. She writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.
Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, and the literary anthology Winter Papers among others. She writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.
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