Catriona Shine is an Irish-Norwegian writer and architect. She lives in Oslo. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, HABITAT, published by the Lilliput Press in March 2024, was a Sunday Times, Irish Times and The Journal Most Anticipated Book of 2024 and longlisted for the McKitterick Prize. It received positive reviews in The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Irish Examiner, RTÉ and elsewhere.
Her writing has been published in the Bridport Prize Anthology, The Dublin Review, Southword, Aesthetica, Hemingway Shorts, Channel, Nanjing Daily, Frogpond, The Cormorant, Thi Wurd and elsewhere.
She has been an awardee of the Evolution Programme at the Irish Writers Centre and a resident fellow at Hawthornden Castle. She represented Dublin UNESCO City of Literature at the Nanjing International Writers' Residency.
Her work has be honoured in prizes such as the Bridport Prize, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, Hemingway Shorts Prize, TLC Pen Factor Prize, PENfro First Chapter Award, IAFOR Vladimir Davidé Haiku Award, and multiple awards from the Arts Council of Ireland.