Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge, England, doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, and stage and radio plays, as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Slammerkin,Life Mask, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Stir-Fry,Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York TimesBest Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes. "The Hunt" (fromAstray) has been short-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the world's most valuable short story prize.
