Claire Keegan is a novelist and short story writer. She was brought up on a farm in Ireland, and at 17 she travelled to New Orleans to study English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992, and her highly acclaimed first volume of short stories, "Antarctica," was published in 1999.

Keegan's stories are translated into 30 languages and have won numerous accolades. "Antarctica" won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. "Walk the Blue Fields" won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. "Foster" won the Davy Byrnes Award and was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st century. "Small Things Like These" was shortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. "Small Things Like These" was also adapted into a film, produced by and starring Cillian Murphy, which was released in theaters in 2024.

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