Sharon Guard lives in Dublin. She graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick in January 2024. Her creative 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 for a story called ‘Fishing’, and her story ‘Artifice’ was shortlisted for the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Competition in 2024. She has been long and short listed for other competitions and publications and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023. She was one of twelve writers selected for the Irish Writers Centre Evolution Programme in 2025/2026. Her debut novel, ‘Assembling Ailish’, was published in February 2025 and shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award 2026. Her novel ‘The Silence Of October’ is published Poolbeg Press in September 2026.