Juliana Adelman is from Concord, Massachusetts but has lived in Dublin for over twenty years where she is assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. 

Her debut novel, The Grateful Water, is historical crime fiction set in nineteenth-century Dublin and draws on her expertise in Irish social history. Her most recent nonfiction book is Civilised by Beasts, which looks at the role of animals in Victorian Dublin. Her short work has appeared or will appear in the Dublin Review, the Stinging Fly and the Irish Times. She is a recipient of the Arts Council Literature Bursary and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at DCU. She is working on her second novel and a collection of short stories.

Photo Juliana Adelman