Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan (born 1990) is an Irish journalist, and author from County Waterford. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels.

Biography
Nolan's father Jim Nolan was a theatre director and founder of the Red Kettle theatre company based in Waterford. She studied film studies and French at Trinity College Dublin, but dropped out before completion of her studies.

She has written essays and literary criticism for the New Statesman. In 2018, she wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times that detailed how she had come to hate England and English people. She subsequently moved from London to New York City.

Acts of Desperation was a Betty Trask Awardee for debut novels in 2022. Ordinary Human Failings was shortlisted for the 2023 Gordon Burn Prize for "books that push boundaries, cross genres or otherwise challenge readers’ expectations", as well as for the 2024 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature to celebrate the "difficult second novel" that follows an author's literary debut.