DrPaula McGrath

Dr Paula McGrath is a critically acclaimed novelist. Her novels, Generation (2015) and A History of Running Away (2017) were published by John Murrays (UK) and in French by Editions de la Table Ronde. A History of Running Away was published in German by JUMBO Neue Median & Verlag GmbH in 2022. Her short fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in gorse, The Irish Times, drb, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly, among other publications. She has been invited to discuss her books in the UK, Ireland, France, and Canada. In 2016, she was Irish Writers Centre/St. Mark’s English Church Writer in Residence in Florence. She has received funding from the Arts Council, the British Academy and elsewhere. 

She holds a BA in Single Honour English Language and Literature from Trinity College Dublin, an MA and MFA from University College Dublin, and a PhD from the University of Limerick, where she was a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Fellow. Her doctoral thesis, ““Narrative Strategies for the Representation of Trauma in Fiction: Theory and Practice”, was supervised by Prof. Joseph O’Connor and Dr Tina O’Toole, and accepted without corrections.

Her teaching and research interests are focused on creative writing, contemporary fiction, environmental writing, and women’s writing. She holds a Professional Certificate in University Teaching & Learning from University College Dublin, and she currently leads the MFA programme.