M J HylandM.J. Hyland is the author of three multi-award-winning novels; How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down and This Is How. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize, twice onglisted for the Orange Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and winner of both the Hawthornden Prize and Encore Prize. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Financial Times, Paris Review and the Guardian. She is co-founder and senior editor at the Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm and was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester until 2018.

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