Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969.
Her novels are Stirfry (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1994/New York: HarperCollins, 1994); Hood (Hamish Hamilton, 1995); Slammerkin (London, Virago, 2000/New York, Harcourt, 2000); The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits (Virago, 2002/ Harcourt, 2002); Life Mask (Harcourt/Virago, 2004);
and Landing, (New York, Harcourt, 2007).
Her short stories have been published as
Touchy Subjects (Harcourt, 2006/Virago, 2006), which was was longlisted for the 2006 Frank O’Connor Short Stories Award and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
Her plays are I Know My Own Heart (1993) and Ladies and Gentlemen (1996, published Dublin, New Island Books, 1998), both produced by Glasshouse Productions, Dublin.
Her work as an historian includes Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801 (Harper Collins US, 1993). She has also edited What Sappho Would Have Said, an anthology of women’s love poetry; Kissing the Witch, A Book of Fairytales for Adults (Hamish Hamilton, 1997); Poems between Women (Columbia University Press, 1997); and The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories (London, Constable Robinson Publishing, 1999).
She lives in lives in Canada.
