‘Prepare to have your pants charmed right off by this warm hug of a book.’ - The Globe and Mail
ABOUT DAMHNAIT
“I feel slightly like I’ve been pranked, but in a really good way!” - Watch the moment I discovered I’d won the Rakuten Kobo 2022 Emerging Writer Prize in the Romance Category here.
‘A fine storyteller.’
- Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
Photo credit: Rachel Elizabeth Photography UK
Damhnait* Monaghan grew up in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Newfoundland & Labrador. She attended Memorial University of Newfoundland (B.A. & B.Ed.) and Western University (LLB.) A former teacher and lawyer, she won the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Romance) for her debut novel New Girl in Little Cove. The novel was inspired by the years she spent teaching in outport Newfoundland. Damhnait is also an award winning flash fiction writer with numerous publication credits. Her novella-in-flash, The Neverlands, won Best Novella in the 2020 Saboteur Awards. Damhnait lives in the south of England with her family and their very spoiled dog.
*pronounced Downith