Aoibheann Sweeney

Aoibheann Sweeney is an American author. Her first novel, Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, is about a girl who grows up alone with her father on an island in Maine and is sent to stay in New York City with friends of her father, who open up her past, and her own world, in ways she could not have begun to imagine. It was published by Penguin Press in 2007 and was an Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review. It also won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category at the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards. She has written for the New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. She earned her M.F.A. at University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has been curating programs at the Center for the Humanities which bring together scholars, writers, artists and civic leaders for over a decade.