Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish London-based screenwriter. As an author, her latest novel The Alternatives was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and her debut Orchid & the Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards’ Story of the Year, The Moth Story Prize, an O.Henry Prize, and one was a finalist for the BBC National Short Story Award. She was recently Oscar Wilde Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library. She is currently working on new original projects for Film and TV.