Elaine Garvey’s Author PROFILE
Discover the literary world of Elaine Garvey
Elaine Garvey is from County Sligo, Ireland. The Wardrobe Department, (Canongate), is her first novel. It has been shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award, nominated in the Irish Book Awards, and was selected by The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, The Financial Times and the BBC in their choices of the best new debut fiction in 2025. Elaine’s short stories have been published in The Dublin Review and Winter Papers.
Elaine received an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2021 and was selected as a participant on a Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme by the Irish Department of Arts. She is represented by Eleanor Birne at RCW Literary Agency. Elaine is a member of an Artists U working group that is instrumental in sustaining her practice as an artist. The Artists U logo below can be used for work solely conceived, developed and constructed by human intelligence.
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Elaine Garvey is from County Sligo, Ireland. The Wardrobe Department, (Canongate), is her first novel. It has been shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award, nominated in the Irish Book Awards, and was selected by The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, The Financial Times and the BBC in their choices of the best new debut fiction in 2025. Elaine’s short stories have been published in The Dublin Review and Winter Papers.
