Damhnait Monaghan is a Canadian writer who has lived in England for 25 years. A former teacher and lawyer, her debut novel New Girl in Little Cove won the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award (Romance). She has over 70 publication credits for short fiction and essays, and her novella-in-flash The Neverlands won Best Novella at the 2020 Saboteur Awards.

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