Eimear McBride is an Irish novelist born on October 6, 1976, in Liverpool to Irish parents. The family moved back to Ireland when she was three, where she spent her childhood in Sligo and Mayo. At the age of 17, she moved to London.

Her debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. In recognition of her contributions to literature, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.