Claire Hennessy is the Irish author of several young adult novels. She was born in Dublin in 1986 and attended Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected a scholar and completed a BA in History and English Literature and master's degrees in Popular Literature and Creative Writing. She teaches creative writing workshops and co-founded a creative writing school in Dublin. She also works as an editor and co-founded a literary journal in 2015. Books Dear Diary... (2000) Being Her Sister (2001) Memories (2002) Stereotype (2003) Good Girls Don't (2004) Afterwards (2005) Girls on the Verge: the Claire Hennessy collection (2005) That Girl (2007) Big Picture (2008) Every Summer (2009) Seeds of Liberty (2014) Nothing Tastes as Good (2016) Like Other Girls (2017) See also Ó hAonghusa External links Claire Hennessy Books at Poolbeg Press website Review in the Irish Times References Irish children's writers 1986 births Writers from Dublin (city) Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Living people Irish writers of young adult literature Irish women children's writers Irish women novelists 21st-century Irish novelists 21st-century Irish women writers Women writers of young adult literature Irish LGBT writers Scholars of Trinity College Dublin 21st-century LGBT people