✍️ My journalism has appeared in The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Irish Examiner, TheJournal.ie, Image Magazine, Púca, Scoop Magazine, Rogue, Longreads, GCN, and others.

🏆 I won a Simon Cumbers Media Fund award to report on human rights abuses in Malawian prisons.

👋🏻 Hello! I’m Clare Egan.

🏳️‍🌈 I’m an award-winning writer and freelance journalist based in Dublin, Ireland. I also teach writing. My pronouns are she/her.

💌 In 2023, I created Beyond Survival, a publication about life after trauma.

Previously:

🗺️ I spent the first decade of my career in the international non-profit sector and worked all over the world: rural Zambian villages, Malawian prisons, hopscotching across India, the Middle East and the US. More recently, I ran communications for UNICEF Ireland and Amnesty International Ireland.

🎓 I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, History and Politics from NUI, Maynooth and a Masters degree in Human Rights from University College Dublin. I wrote my Masters thesis on how Osama Bin Laden’s death was portrayed in American TV and film. I’m a proud alumnus of the Washington Ireland Program, and spent a summer interning in the US Senate.

☘️ I live in Dublin with my partner and our beloved cats. When I’m not writing, I love to cook, travel and read.

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