Biography

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1970, Nuala Ní Chonchúir is a fiction writer and poet. She has published one novel, four collections of short fiction and three poetry collections - one in an anthology.

Nuala holds a BA in Irish from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Translation Studies (Irish/English) from Dublin City University. She has worked as an arts administrator in theatre and in a writers' centre; as a translator, as a bookseller and also in a university library.

Nuala teaches creative writing on a part-time basis. She lives in County Galway with her husband and three children.

Novel

You You New Island Books, Dublin April 2010

Short Story Collections

Mother America Mother America New Island Publishing, Dublin June 2012
nude Nude Salt Publishing, London September 2009
Stories To The World of Men, Welcome Arlen House, Galway December 2005
Stories The Wind Across the Grass Arlen House, Galway May 2004

Poetry Collections

Poetry The Juno Charm Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare November 2011
Poetry Portrait of the Artist With a Red Car Templar Poetry, Derbyshire November 2009
Tattoo:Tatú Tattoo:Tatú Arlen House, Galway 2007
Poetry Molly’s Daughter
in the ¡DIVAS! New Irish Women's Writing Anthology Arlen House, Galway June 2003

Drama

Nuala co-wrote a play, Departures with three other writers, for Turtleshell Productions in New York.

Editor

Antollogy Faceless Monsters The Atlantis Collective 2010
  Horizon Review   2009-2010
Journal Southword 14 and 15 Munster Literature Centre 2008
Anthology ¡DIVAS!
A Sense of Place Arlen House, Galway 2005

Co-editor

  New Writing from the West
(3 Titles) Arlen House, Galway September 2005

Journals and Magazines

Nuala’s poetry and fiction have appeared in publications such as The Stinging Fly, Mannequin Envy, Revival, New Irish Writing in The Sunday Tribune, Poetry Ireland Review, The SHOp, Irish Pages, Black Mountain Review, Litro (UK), Pen Pusher (UK), Garm Lu (Canada), Crannóg and Southlight (UK).

Anthologies

Her poetry has appeared in Galway - City of Strangers, the US anthology Generation X: In Their Own Words, The Watchful Heart and the UK anthology 100 Poets Against The War.

Her fiction has appeared in These Are Our Lives, The Irish Feminist Review, Honeysuckle, Honeyjuice: A Tribute to James Liddy, The Cúirt Annual, Splinters and Silver Threads of Hope.

Non-fiction has appeared in the County Lines, Sunday Miscellany, Quiet Quarter and A Sense of Place anthologies, and she has work forthcoming in the UK anthology Crowning Glory.

Radio

Nuala's novel You, will be broadcast on the Book on One in May on RTE radio one.

Her short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have featured on RTÉ radio, on the Francis Mac Manus broadcasts, on Sunday Miscellany and The Enchanted Way. Her non-fiction has featured on Lyric FM’s The Quiet Quarter.

Reviewing

Nuala reviews fiction and poetry for The Short Review and Orbis, The Sandstone Review, Vallum and Women’s Studies Review.
She also reviews for the RTE radio 1 arts show Arena.

Forthcoming

Nuala has a chapbook of short short stories forthcoming in September from Tower Press in the USA.
She has a story in the Faber Anthology Town and Country edited by Kevin Barry.
Nuala will be guest fiction editor for the spring 2014 issue of Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly.