Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for both the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Pigott Poetry Prize. She is a fellow of the James Merrill Foundation, and the Bogliasco Foundation, and was awarded a Tin House Writers Workshop Scholarship for Summer 2017, a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and The Ireland Funds Monaco Award. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Granta, POETRY, Best British Poetry, BBC Radio 3, The Rumpus and elsewhere. She divides her time between her native Ireland and the Netherlands.
Orchid & the Wasp is a gorgeous novel told in an onrush of wit and
ferocity. Art-forging, smack-talking, long-distance-running Gael
Foess, three times smarter than everyone around her, proves to be
an unforgettable heroine, and her journey will rattle your most
basic assumptions about money, ambition, and the nature of love.
Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent. * Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See *
`An ambitious, richly inventive and highly entertaining account of
the way we live now. Caoilinn Hughes writes with authority and
insight, and her novel is as up-to-date as tomorrow's
financial-page headlines.' * John Banville, author of The
Sea *
'Gael, the young heroine of Orchid & the Wasp, is a magnificent and
assured creation, breathtakingly smart, never self-pitying,
impossible for others to manage, my favorite discovery this year.
Hughes's characters are rare, like no one you've read before. This
is an entirely original novel, dazzling and beautiful, disturbingly
cold and insistent.' * David Vann, author of Legend of a
Suicide *
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