Una Mannion

Una Mannion is an Irish-American author whose debut novel Tell Me What I Am won the CWA Gold Dagger in 2024. Born and raised in County Mayo, Ireland, Mannion spent part of her childhood in the United States, an experience that informs her fiction's dual perspective on Irish and American identity. Tell Me What I Am is a literary crime novel set in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1970s, exploring a tragedy that fractures a family and its long aftermath. It was praised for its nuanced characters, period atmosphere, and exploration of grief and silence within families. Mannion teaches creative writing in Ireland and is regarded as a significant new voice in literary crime fiction.