🏠 New York, NY Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel Acts of Desperation was published in 2021 and was an international bestseller and translated into fourteen languages. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, was published in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Orwell prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize for Fiction, The Gordon Burn Prize, The Royal Society of Literature Encore Award, and longlisted for the Women's Prize. She is currently at work on her first book of non-fiction to be published in 2026.