Ruth Gilligan

Ruth Gilligan is an Irish novelist and journalist now living in the UK, where she works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She has published four novels to date, and was the youngest person ever to reach number one on the Irish bestsellers' list. Her most recent book, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, was inspired by the unknown story of the Jewish community in Ireland. It was published by Atlantic Books (UK/Ireland), Tin House (US) and Penn (Israel). Ruth holds degrees from Cambridge, Yale, UEA and Exeter, and contributes regular literary reviews to the Times Literary Supplement, LA Review of Books, Guardian and Irish Independent.