Máire Malone

Máire Malone is an award winning author. Her debut novel, The Dream Circle, was selected as a finalist in the Eyelands International Book Awards, 2019. Her second novel, historical fiction about the Irish Famine, Hungry Trails, receives five stars and the 'Highly Recommended' Award of Excellence from The Historical Fiction Company, 2023. This novel has been selected as a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2023.

She was born and reared in Dublin where she worked as a medical secretary for ten years. She moved to the UK where she obtained an honours BA in Arts and Psychology. For over twenty years she followed a career in Counselling & Psychotherapy with a particular interest in dreams. She has been a writer for as far back as she can remember and several of her poems have been selected and published by Ver Poets and other anthologies. She has had short story prize wins in Scribble magazine and a recent story was shortlisted in Words and Women Competition, 2018. She was selected for a place on the Novel Studio Course in 2017 where she completed a draft of her debut novel. An excerpt and synopsis of The Dream Circle was shortlisted in Adventures in Fiction - New Voices Competition 2018 and proclaimed to be ‘a particularly strong contender’ by the judges. The Dream Circle has also been longlisted in the Flash 500 Novel Opening and Synopsis Competition 2018.

She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband.