Sinéad Gleeson

Sinéad Gleeson is an Irish author and artist. Her essay collection, Constellations: Reflections from Life, won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was published in the US by Mariner Books and translated into several languages. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland and The Art of Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories.

Gleeson has also engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians, including commissions from City Gallery Wellington, The Wellcome Collection, BBC and Frieze. In 2021, she collaborated with composer Stephen Shannon and artist Aideen Barry on an installation, By Slight Ligaments, for the Limerick City Gallery and artirts Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon on another installation, The Map / We Are The Map, for the Rua Red. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music, published by Hachette Books in 2022.

Her debut novel, Hagstone was published by 4th Estate in April 2024.

Works

 * As editor


 * Silver Threads of Hope, New Island Books, 2012 ISBN 1-84840-181-7, in aid of Console
 * The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, New Island Books, 2016 ISBN 1-84840-548-0
 * winner 2015 Best Irish Published Book of the Year Irish Book Awards
 * 2018 Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive's One City One Book
 * The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Woman Writers from the North of Ireland ISBN 1-84840-557-X, winner 2016 TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year, Irish Book Awards
 * The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, 2020 ISBN 978-1-78854-880-9
 * This Woman's Work: Essays on Music, Hachette Books, 2022, ISBN 978-0-306-82900-0 (with Kim Gordon)


 * As author


 * Constellations, Picador Books, 2019 Essay collection ISBN 1-5098-9274-5 Houghton Mifflin March 2020 in USA


 * As contributor


 * A Little Unsteadily Into Light (2022, New Island Books)
 * Hagstone, a novel, 4th Estate Books, 2024, ISBN 978-0-00-862664-8