Ethel Rohan is an award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She won the Nautilus Award for her debut novel The Weight of Him and the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award. She was also shortlisted for the CUIRT, Roberts, and Bristol Short Story Prizes, and longlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Her story collections Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone were longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the Story Prize respectively. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, PEN America, The Washington Post, GUERNICA, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. From Ireland, she lives in San Francisco.