Sue Rainsford

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Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney

Sue Rainsford is an Irish novelist and arts writer based in Dublin.

She is a graduate of Trinity College, IADT, and Bennington College, Vermont. Her debut novel, Follow Me To Ground, was originally published by New Island Books in Ireland (2018), in the UK by Doubleday (2019), and by Scribner in the US (2021). Her second novel, Redder Days, was published by Doubleday in Ireland and the UK (2021).

Her stories and novels have been nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Prix Jean Monnet des Jeunes Européens, the New York Radio Festival Awards, the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

Sue is also the grateful recipient of the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Kate O’Brien Award and le Prix Imaginales Award, and she has been awarded residencies by such institutions as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Maynooth University and University College Dublin. Notable commissions include BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ Radio 1; her short story, "Shorn", was read by Saoirse Ronan.

Most recently, Follow Me To Ground and Redder Days have been published by Aux Forges de Vulcain in France.

Photo Credit: Ali Rainsford

Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney

Sue Rainsford is an Irish novelist and arts writer based in Dublin.

She is a graduate of Trinity College, IADT, and Bennington College, Vermont. Her debut novel, Follow Me To Ground, was originally published by New Island Books in Ireland (2018), in the UK by Doubleday (2019), and by Scribner in the US (2021). Her second novel, Redder Days, was published by Doubleday in Ireland and the UK (2021).

Her stories and novels have been nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Prix Jean Monnet des Jeunes Européens, the New York Radio Festival Awards, the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.

Sue is also the grateful recipient of the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Kate O’Brien Award and le Prix Imaginales Award, and she has been awarded residencies by such institutions as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Maynooth University and University College Dublin. Notable commissions include BBC Radio 4 and RTÉ Radio 1; her short story, "Shorn", was read by Saoirse Ronan.

Most recently, Follow Me To Ground and Redder Days have been published by Aux Forges de Vulcain in France.

Photo Credit: Ali Rainsford