Rachel Connolly

1993–

Rachel Connolly, born in Belfast in 1993, is a novelist, journalist and critic. She attended Methodist College Belfast and studied maths and physics at the University of Manchester, then worked as a risk analyst for an insurance company before moving into journalism, including a Google Fellowship with RTÉ’s investigations unit in 2018. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times. Her first novel, Lazy City (2023), set in Belfast, received a Betty Trask Award in 2024. She lives in London.

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