Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish writer who lives in Canada. She is the author of three contemporary Dublin novels, STIR-FRY (1994), HOOD (1995, winner of the American Library Association's Gay and Lesbian Book Award) and LANDING (2007); KISSING THE WITCH (1997), a sequence of re-imagined fairytales, shortlisted for the James L. Tiptree Award; SLAMMERKIN (2000), a historical novel inspired by an eighteenth-century murder, winner of the Ferr-Grumley Award and a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Fiction Prize; two collections of short stories, THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO RABBITS(2002) and TOUCHY SUBJECTS(Harcourt, 2006); and LIFE MASK(2004), a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award.

Her most recent novel, THE SEALED LETTER(Harcourt, 2008), is a gripping domestic thriller based on a Victorian divorce case.

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