Nicola Monaghan
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Nicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar.
Monaghan was listed in The Independent’s New Year 2006 list of rising talent, and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut. Her second novel Starfishing and novella The Okinawa Dragon will come out in 2008. She has also had stories published in anthologies and magazines, including Sunday Night and Monday Morning (Five Leaves), Cool Brittania (Wachenbach) and online magazine Pulp.Net
Monaghan also teaches creative writing, and is the first fellow of The National Academy of Writing, which is based at the Birmingham City University.
[edit] Reviews of The Killing Jar
- New Zealand Listener
- The Written Nerd
- East London and West Essex Guardian
- The Observer
- Mslexia
- The Independent
[edit] Starfishing
This is Monaghan’s second novel, and will be published by Chatto and Windus in March 2008. It is based in the City of London in the late 90s and is about Frankie Cavanagh, a LIFFE futures trader.
