SHARON GUARD grew up in, and still lives in, Dublin. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick. Her work has appeared in New Irish Writing, SWERVE magazine, The Ogham Stone and the Washing Windows anthologies. She won the Molly Keane Creative Writing Award in 2020 and her story Artifice was shortlisted for the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024. Her debut novel, Assembling Ailish, is published by Poolbeg Press.