Fiona Gartland has been a journalist with The Irish Times for fourteen 

years and has covered many cases at the Criminal Courts of Justice and 

at Family Court. She was shortlisted for the Francis McManus Short 

Story Competition on half a dozen occasions, has had stories broadcast 

and has been published in magazines. Her first novel, In the Court’s 

Hands, was published in 2018.

She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children.