Claire is a writer from Dublin, Ireland. She has short stories published by The Ogham Stone, Lunate Fiction, JMWW and Storgy. She won the 2021 Morning Coffee Writing Competition and was runner-up in the Highlands & Islands Short Story Competition in the same year; her stories have been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize, the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition and the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition among others.

In 2021 she was awarded a Words Ireland literary mentorship to complete her first novel, SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS, which was a runner-up in the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair 2023 and will be published by Sceptre in 2025.

Claire Gleeson

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