DrNiamh Campbell

Lecturer / Assistant Professor of Creative Writing

I am a writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and criticism. I hold a PhD from King's College London (2015) and have been an IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University (2017-2019). My monograph Sacred Weather: Atmospheric Essentialism in the Work of John McGahern (2019) is published by Cork UP, and my novels This Happy (2020), We Were Young (2022), and Make Strange (2026) by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Shorter work can be found in Pig's Back, The Stinging Fly, Gorse, Banshee, Tangerine, Granta, Five Dials, Tolka, Paper Visual, Holy Show, and the Dublin Review, 

I am the 2020 winner of the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize and the 2021 winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Writing. My fiction has also been nominated for the John McGahern Book Prize, the Kate O'Brien Award, the Kerry Group Book of the Year Award, and the An Post Irish Book Awards. I was writer in residence at UCD in 2021, and now lecture in creative writing in the School of English, Drama and Film.