Frank McGuinness was born in County Donegal, in 1953 and now lives in Dublin. His plays include The Factory Girls, Observe the Sons ofUlster Marching towards the Somme, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Mutabilitie, Gates of Gold and There Came a Gypsy Riding. He has adapted works of Lorca, Chekhov, Brecht, Strindberg, Pirandello and Sophocles. His version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House won a ‘Tony’ award in 1997.  

The Gallery Press has published Booterstown (1994), The Sea with No Ships (1999) The Stone Jug (2003) and Dulse (December 2007).

Frank McGuinness is Professor of Creative Writing in UCD.