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Niamh
Ní Mhaoileoin

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is an Irish writer living and working in Edinburgh. In 2022, she won the PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries award. Her work has appeared in Gutter, The New Statesman, The Irish Times, the Fierce Salvage anthology and elsewhere. Ordinary Saints is her debut novel.

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin is an Irish writer living and working in Edinburgh. In 2022, she won the PFD Queer Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries award. Her work has appeared in Gutter, The New Statesman, The Irish Times, the Fierce Salvage anthology and elsewhere. Ordinary Saints is her debut novel.

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