Bethany Joy Dawson holds an MPhil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, and her debut novel, My Father’s House, was published in 2013 to critical acclaim. Familiar is her second novel. She is the curator of Upstream, an offering of weekly essays that map the landscape as she sees it – literary, physical, spiritual and other. 
Originally from Co. Down, she now lives in Sligo with her husband and three children.

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