Charleen Hurtubise

Charleen Hurtubise is a novelist and artist. Saoirse, her US debut, is her second novel. She first published The Polite Act of Drowning in 2023 in the UK, Ireland and Australia. She studied at Trinity College and University College Dublin, where she taught creative writing. The sixth sister in a family of nine, she spent much of her childhood in Michigan, her early adult years in Boston, and has now lived half of her life in Ireland, which is home.

 Though she lives in Dublin with her Irish family, the pull of Donegal never leaves and continues to influence her drawings and writings, including Saoirse.