Molly Hennigan is writer and editor living on the Aran Islands whose writing has featured in The Stinging Fly, Tolka, The Pig’s Back and more. Her first book The Celestial Realm was published in 2023 and explores the history of psychiatric incarceration in Ireland as it is linked to her own maternal lineage. The Celestial Realm was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the Royal Irish Academy’s Michel Déon Prize. She was awarded a full PhD scholarship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Molly is currently working on a novel. She is the editor of a forthcoming anthology of Irish writing on Maeve Brennan which will be published by New Island Books. Molly is the 2025 Arts Council writer-in-residence at the University of Galway.