Eimear Ryan

Eimear Ryan is the author of the novel Holding Her Breath (Sandycove 2021, Mariner Books 2022) and the memoir The Grass Ceiling: On Being a Woman in Sport (Sandycove 2023), which won Sports Book of the Year at the 2023 Irish Book Awards. She has also been shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards, the Kate O’Brien Award, and the John McGahern Annual Book Prize. Other writing has appeared in Granta, Winter Papers, The Dublin Review and The Stinging Fly. From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city, where she lectures in creative writing at University College Cork.