About Órfhlaith Foyle
Poet Writer Radio Dramatist
If a very early-career Ian McEwan got together with Franz Kafka and Flannery O’Connor and somehow a lovechild grew up to be a writer, I think that writer might be Órfhlaith Foyle. Throw in the loneliness of Jean Rhys and the twisted fairy-tale atmospheres of Angela Carter and the picture is almost complete.
Alan McMonagle author of Laura Cassidy's Walk of Fame (Picador)
Órfhlaith Foyle is short story writer, poet and dramatist and lives in Galway.
Doire Press published her third collection of short stories Three Houses in Rome September 2023.
Her previous works include a novel Belios (Lilliput Press), poetry Revenge (Arlen House), short fiction collections Somewhere in Minnesota and Clemency Brown Dreams of Gin both published by Arlen House, and her poetry and fiction have appeared in Lines in the Sand, the London Magazine, The Dublin Review, Wales Arts Review, The Manchester Review, The Stinging Fly, the Gorse journal and various anthologies.
Her radio dramas May’s End and How I Murdered Lucrezia, adapted from her own short stories, directed by her, and premiered on Ireland's Newstalk Radio in October 2021 and 2023.
Marvellously off-kilter, wry and utterly absorbing tales - reminiscent of Lucia Berlin, but with her own truly original spark. Foyle is a natural storyteller.
Elaine Feeney, author of How to Build a Boat (Harvill Secker)
