Molly Aitken

Molly Aitken grew up in Ballydehob, West Cork. Her first novel, The Island Child was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, for which she won the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction 2023, Banshee, and has been dramatized for BBC Radio 4. Molly studied her undergraduate in English and Classics in Galway. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and History at Sheffield Hallam University. Her second novel Bright I Burn is published by Canongate in June 2024.