Niamh Boyce

A Hennessy Award winner and Irish Book Award Winner, Niamh writes novels and poetry from her writing shed in the Irish Midlands.

Her debut The Herbalist (Penguin) was best selling, critically acclaimed award winning novel based on the real trial of an Indian Herbalist in midlands Ireland.

Her poetry collection 'Inside The Wolf' (Red Dress Press) contains work from her award winning sequence, 'Kitty'.

Her latest novel, Her Kind (Penguin) is a re-imagining of the notorious witchcraft trial of Dame Alice Kyteler, a forerunner to the Salem trials, it took place in medieval Ireland and was the first of its kind. Shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature, the judges called Her Kind - 'as searing a critique of our own times as was Arthur Miller's, The Crucible.'

'Masterful ... Boyce delicately unfolds this atmospheric, magical thriller with pace and juice. The Sunday Independent.

Niamh is currently working on her new novel and a collection of her short fiction.