Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two micro-fiction collections. Her novel The Fire Starters won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland 2019. Her latest novel, The Raptures, was published by Doubleday in 2022 and was subsequently shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year.
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