Martina Devlin

Dr Martina Devlin is an author and newspaper columnist who has written novels, non-fiction books, plays and a collection of short stories. Her novel Glorious Monsters about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley will be published in autumn 2026. Other recent novels include Charlotte, which explores Charlotte Brontë’s Irish connections; Edith about the Irish R.M. co-author Edith Somerville; and The House Where It Happened about a mass witchcraft trial in Antrim in 1711, which led to a plaque erected to those convicted following a campaign she initiated.

Prizes include the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Pritchett Prize and a Hennessy Literary Award, and she has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Book Awards. Martina writes a weekly current affairs column for the Irish Independent for which she has been named National Newspapers of Ireland commentator of the year, among other journalism prizes. She holds a PhD in literary practice from Trinity College Dublin, has taught literature there and at other universities, and served as a judge on numerous literary prizes.