About

Lisa Harding is a former actress, playwright and novelist. Her first novel Harvesting won the Kate O’Brien Award and was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kerry Group Prize.It was republished in the US in 2023 as Cloud Girls. Her second novel Bright Burning Things was a Today Show Book Club Pick, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People Magazine Pick and and an Observer, Grazia, Irish Times and Irish Independent highlight for 2021. It was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and a Dalkey Literary Award. Her new novel The Wildelings is an Observer, Harpers Bazaar and Irish Times choice for 2025. She lives in Dublin.