Charleen Hurtubise is a novelist and practicing artist based in Dublin Ireland.  She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin (UCD) and an M.Sc. from Trinity College in Technology & Learning. She has taught creative writing seminars at various institutions, including UCD and the Irish Writers Centre. Her most recent exhibition highlighted the biodiversity and wild beauty found in the blanket bog habitats of Ireland. Her digital, collaborative collage featured at the Earth Rising Festival at the Irish Museum of Modern Art for three years in a row, also at the Pearse Museum and Castletown House, amongst others.

Charleen has received Literature Bursary Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. She was a recipient of  Culture Ireland funding, which allowed her to bring her work to new North American audiences.  Her debut novel, The Polite Act of Drowning was published in 2023 and Saoirse in 2026, and became an Irish Bestseller and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, selected by The Reading Agency and Librarians across the UK.  This fact makes her immensely proud, in particular because she credits her town librarian, Mrs Preuss, for starting her on her reading journey and her own bid for freedom from a challenging past. The sixth sister in a family of nine, she spent much of her childhood in Michigan, her early adult years in Boston, and has now lived half of her life in Ireland, which is home. She lives in Dublin with her Irish family.