Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel Acts of Desperation was published in 2021 and was an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, published in 2023, was shortlisted for the Orwell prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize for Fiction, The Gordon Burn Prize, The Royal Society of Literature Encore Award, and longlisted for the Women's Prize. She is currently at work on her first book of nonfiction.

Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, The Sunday Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers.