Elaine Garvey

Biography

Elaine Garvey is from County Sligo, Ireland. The Wardrobe Department, (Canongate, 2025), is her first novel. It has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, an Irish Book Award, the Kate O’Brien Award 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.