Wendy Erskine

Wendy Erskine is a Northern Irish novelist and short story writer whose sharp, unflinching fiction captures contemporary Belfast life. She lives in Belfast and teaches English. The Benefactors is her second novel, following her acclaimed short story collection Sweet Home. Erskine's fiction is praised for its precise, economical prose and its ability to find drama and dark humour in the everyday lives of ordinary people in Belfast. She captures the textures of class, community, and quiet desperation with remarkable clarity. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers sharp, brilliantly observed fiction about contemporary Northern Irish life — writing that finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.