Ruth Gilligan is a best-selling novelist and journalist from Ireland, now living in the UK. Her fourth novel, Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan, is based on the history of the Jewish community in Ireland, and was published by Atlantic Books in 2017. Ruth works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Birmingham and writes literary reviews for the Irish Independent, Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Form, Autobiography, Sex: Eimear McBride’s Second Novel
Ruth Gilligan on Eimear McBride's "The Lesser Bohemians."...
Loud Love: On Belinda McKeon’s “Tender”
Ruth Gilligan on Belinda McKeon's "Tender"....
A New Way of Looking: Colum McCann and the Empathy of His Fiction
The embrace of otherness, of stepping outside the self, typifies Colum McCann's career....
