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Caoilinn Hughes

Biography

Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection GATHERING EVIDENCE won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. She is a fellow of the James Merrill Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Tin House Workshop, and has received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Granta, POETRY, Best British Poetry, BBC Radio 3 and elsewhere. She divides her time between the Netherlands and Ireland.

Caoilinn Hughes

Books by Caoilinn Hughes

Orchid and the Wasp
by Caoilinn Hughes - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, Gael Foess learns early how a person’s ambitions and ideals can be compromised --- and she refuses to let her vulnerable, unwell younger brother, Guthrie, suffer such sacrifices. When Gael’s financier father walks out on them during the economic crash of 2008, her family fractures. Her mother, a once-formidable orchestral conductor, becomes a shadow. And a fateful incident prevents Guthrie from finishing high school. Determined not to let her loved ones fall victim to circumstance, Gael leaves Dublin for the coke-dusted social clubs of London and Manhattan’s gallery scene, always working an angle, but beginning to become a stranger to those who love her.