Niamh Boyce

Niamh Boyce’s debut The Herbalist (Penguin 2013) was an Irish Writer’s Centre Novel Fair Winner. An instant bestseller, it also won Debut of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was nominated for an IMPAC. Her Kind (Penguin 2019), her second novel, is based on the witchcraft trial of Alice Kyteler. Nominated for the EU Prize for literature, the judges called it ‘as searing a critique of our own times as is Arthur Millar’s The Crucible.’ She won the Writer of the Year Hennessy Award for her poetry– subsequently published in Inside The Wolf (2018). Her short fiction has been anthologized and broadcast on RTÉ Radio. Niamh mentors writers, teaches creative writing through the Irish Writers Centre, and was Writer in Residence in Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2024. She recently co-edited the anthology Fire: writings and art inspired by Brigid and the Sacred Feminine (Arlen House). She is one of the contributors to “io – intentionally offline”.