Caoilinn Hughes
Fiction Writer

Caoilinn Hughes's latest novel is The Alternatives, a New York Times Editor's Choice. She is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year, The Moth Short Story Prize, and an O.Henry Prize. She was recently Oscar Wilde Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. 

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.