Claire Hennessy

Claire Hennessy is the Irish author of several young adult novels. She was born in Dublin in 1986 and attended Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected a scholar and completed a BA in History and English Literature and master's degrees in Popular Literature and Creative Writing.

She teaches creative writing workshops and co-founded a creative writing school in Dublin. She also works as an editor and co-founded a literary journal in 2015.

Books Dear Diary... (2000) Being Her Sister (2001) Memories (2002) Stereotype (2003) Good Girls Don't (2004) Afterwards (2005) Girls on the Verge: the Claire Hennessy collection (2005) That Girl (2007) Big Picture (2008) Every Summer (2009) Seeds of Liberty (2014) Nothing Tastes as Good (2016) Like Other Girls (2017)