Marianne van Pelt

Winner Cheshire Novel Prize 2025 for My Dark Bowered Queen

Marianne van Pelt is an American-Irish writer. She grew up in Connecticut, where her father taught at Yale Divinity School. Twenty years ago, she followed her heart to rural Ireland, where she now lives on a windswept hill overlooking the Atlantic. She is an alumna of the Faber & Curtis Brown Writing a Novel courses, and holds a BA in Creative Writing and an MA in Public Relations.

Marianne is represented by Stephanie Glencross at David Higham Associates. You can view Marianne’s DHA profile here.

You can read an excerpt of My Dark Bowered Queen here.

You can read an interview with Marianne van Pelt here.