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Ellen Ryan is a journalist and bestselling author from Wicklow, Ireland, who has contributed to the Irish Independent and Irish Times, among other media.
Her debut book, Girls Who Slay Monsters (HarperCollins), sold circa. 10,000 copies in its first six months and made the Irish bestseller list for Christmas. It won ‘Children’s Book of the Year: Senior’ at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022 and was shortlisted for overall book of the year, as part of a televised feature. It went on to win Children’s Books Ireland KPMG ‘Book of the Year Award’ award and ‘Children’s Books Ireland KPMG Junior Juries Award’, 2023, as voted for by thousands of young readers across Ireland.
Girls Who Slay Monsters was the official inspiration for Ireland’s national 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Ryan’s second book, Gods Don't Cry, was shortlisted for the ‘Children’s Book of the Year: Senior’ at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2023 and featured on the Irish children’s bestseller list for Christmas, for two weeks.
In 2024, both books were published by Interlink Publishing, US. Her third book is a standalone narrative non-fiction, to be published by HarperCollins in Autumn 2025. And her fiction debut arrives in Spring 2026. Further details to be announced on both, soon!
