Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish novelist, and short story writer.

She holds BA and MA degrees from Queen's University of Belfast, and a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.^[1] Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet Press, 2014),^[2] won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award in 2015. Her debut novel, Orchid & the Wasp (Oneworld / Hogarth Press, 2018),^[3] won the 2019 Collyer Bristow Prize,^[4] was shortlisted for the Hearst Big Book Award^[5] and the Butler Literary Award, and was longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award^[6] and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020.^[7] In 2018, she won The Moth Short Story Prize for her story "Psychobabble".^[8][9] In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story "Prime".^[10] She won the An Post Irish Book Awards' writing.ie Story of the Year 2020.^[11] Her second novel, The Wild Laughter (Oneworld, 2020),^[12] won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award 2021,^[13][14] and was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards' Novel of the Year 2020,^[15] the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners' Choice Award,^[16] the Dalkey Literary Award (Emerging Writer),^[17] and was longlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize.^[18] She was the 2021 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.^[19]

• Gathering Evidence, Carcanet Press, 2014. ISBN 9781847772626, OCLC 864790156
• Orchid And The Wasp, Oneworld Publications/Hogarth Press, 2018. ISBN 9781786074997, OCLC 1102658950^[20][21][22]
• The Wild Laughter, Oneworld Publications, 2020. ISBN 1786077809^{[23][24][25][26]}