Marianne van Pelt

Winner Cheshire Novel Prize 2025 for My Dark Bowered Queen

Marianne van Pelt is an American-Irish writer living on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. She grew up in Connecticut, where her father taught at Yale Divinity School, and is an alumna of the Faber & Curtis Brown Writing a Novel courses. She 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.

My Dark Bowered Queen is a dark academia literary thriller set off the coast of Galway. You can read an excerpt of My Dark Bowered Queen here.

You can read an interview with Marianne van Pelt here.

You can read an essay by Marianne van Pelt about her life in Ireland here.