Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Galway, Ireland
• Education—B.A., St. Patrick's College, Dublin
• Awards—Bord Gais Irish Book of the Year Award
• Currently—lives in Dublin
Mary Costello is originally from Galway but lives in Dublin. Her stories have been published in New Irish Writing, The Stinging Fly and in several anthologies including Town and Country – New Irish Short Stories.
She taught for many years and is now writing fulltime. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled The China Factory, was published in 2012 and was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the Irish Books Award. Stories from the collection were broadcast on RTE and BBC radio.
Academy Street, Costello's first novel, came out in 2014 (U.S., 2015). It won the Bord Gais Irish Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Costa First Novel Award, the International Dublin Literary Ward, and the EU Prize for Literature. In 2011 and 2013, she received an Arts Council bursary. (From the publisher.)