Soula Emmanuel was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She studied at universities in Ireland and Sweden, emerging with a master’s in demography. She currently lives on Ireland’s east coast.
In March 2023, her debut novel Wild Geese was published by Footnote Press in the UK and Ireland. In September 2023, it was published by the Feminist Press in the US and Canada. In 2024, it won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize at the UK Society of Authors Awards. Her work has been published by The Irish Times and dramatised for BBC Radio 4.
She is represented by Caro Clarke at Portobello Literary.
She is on Instagram @soulaemmanuel and can be reached by email at hi@soulaemmanuel.com.
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