Selina Guinness was born in Dublin. She lived in Budapest, London and Oxford before returning to work as Lecturer in Irish Literature at The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Her memoir about farming on the fringes of the city,
The Crocodile by the Door, was published in 2012 by Penguin Ireland. It was shortlisted for the UK Costa Book Awards (Biography) and nominated for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies
, All Over Ireland (Faber), and
The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction,
2005 - 2015 (New Island). Her essays and collaborative non-fiction have been published by
Winter Papers, The Dublin Review and
Another Chicago. She is also the editor of the anthology,
The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), and has translated poems by Sándor Marai from the Hungarian. She was the Arts Council / Irish Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. She is currently writing a novel set in Budapest in 2015.
Books by Selina Guinness
