Sinéad Nolan grew up playing between the forests and beaches of leafy County Dublin, Ireland. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from University of Derby and a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from Nottingham Trent University. Previously, she was a regular freelance feature writer for the Sunday World and the Irish Independent and has had short stories shortlisted for the Momaya Press Awards and the Francis McManus awards for RTE Radio.
Apart from writing, her other profession is Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works in private practice as a BACP Registered Counsellor seeing clients in central London. From 2019 to 2020 she completed the six-month Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ course. Her hobbies include watching true crime documentaries, travelling and reading. She lives with her husband and three food-obsessed cats in London.
Sinéad’s debut novel The Counting Game is due to be published by Harper North in early 2025 as a major title.
Sinéad is currently working on her second novel.