Lisa Harding is a novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her debut novel Harvesting won the Kate O’Brien Award and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and the Kerry Group Prize. Her second novel Bright Burning Things was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Today Show Book Club Pick, and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and a Dalkey Literary Award. Her most recent novel The Wildelings was featured in The Observer, The Economist, Harper’s Bazaar, the Irish Examiner and the Irish Times.