Liza Costello’s debut novel The Estate was initially released in 2020 as an Audible Original, where it was chosen as an Editor’s Pick and as Thriller of the Month. It was published in print by Hachette Ireland in 2021. Her second novel, Crookedwood, was also published by Hachette Ireland, in 2022.
Her stories, essays and poems have appeared in The Irish Times, the Dublin Review of Books, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Independent, The Manchester Review, The Interpreter’s House, ISLE Magazine, Confrontation Magazine (print) and Mslexia.
In 2011, she won the Dromineer Literary Festival Poetry Award and in 2015 came joint second in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for an unpublished collection. She has also been short-listed for the RTE Radio 1 Short Story Award, the Seán Ó’Faoláin International Short Story Competition and the William Trevor / Elizabeth Bowen Short Story Competition. She has undertaken artist residencies in the Arvon Foundation and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Arts Council for her poetry. She recently completed her PhD on the pastoral mode in the writing of Dermot Healy.
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Liza is a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre and teaches a six-week course on writing a psychological thriller. A member of the Association of Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Indexers (AFEPI) Ireland, she works as a freelance copy-editor and proofeader. She used to work as a social researcher in the not-for-profit sector.