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Queer Trivia
She's an Irish Canadian writer.
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969, the youngest of eight children. She earned a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English and French from University College Dublin, followed by a PhD in English from Girton College, Cambridge. During her time at Cambridge, she lived in a women’s co-operative, an experience that later inspired her short story “The Welcome.”
She has highlighted the significance of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion, and Alan Garner’s Red Shift in shaping the development of her own writing.
Her 2010 novel Room was an international bestseller and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Her 1995 novel Hood received the Stonewall Book Award, while Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. In 2011, she was honored with an Alex Award. She adapted Room into a feature film, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
While at Cambridge, she met her future wife, Christine Roulston, a Canadian who is now a professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. The couple moved permanently to Canada in 1998, and she became a Canadian citizen in 2004. They live in London, Ontario, with their two children.
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