M. J. Hyland
Novelist, Author
1968 –
Who is M. J. Hyland?
M.J Hyland is an ex-lawyer and the author of three multi-award-winning novels: How the Light Gets In, Carry Me Down & This is How. M.J Hyland is a lecturer in Creative Writing in The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. Hyland is also co-founder of The Hyland & Byrne Editing Firm, established September 2011. Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize & won both the Hawthornden Prize & The Encore Prize.
M.J Hyland has twice been long listed for The Orange Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize & This is How was longlisted for the Dublin International IMPAC prize.
At the University of Manchester she has run fiction workshops alongside Martin Amis, Colm Tóibín & Jeanette Winterson. M.J Hyland runs regular Fiction Masterclasses in The Guardian Masterclass Programme, has twice been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize and she publishes in The Guardian 'How to Write' series and The Financial Times, the LRB, Granta & elsewhere.
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