**Megan Nolan *was born in Waterford, Ireland and lives in London. Her essays, fiction and reviews published in the New York Times *, the White Review, the New Statesman, the Sunday Times, the Village Voice, the Guardian, and in the literary anthology Winter Papers. Acts of Desperation is her first ...

**Megan Nolan *was born in Waterford, Ireland and lives in London. Her essays, fiction and reviews published in the New York Times *, the White Review, the New Statesman, the Sunday Times, the Village Voice, the Guardian, and in the literary anthology Winter Papers. Acts of Desperation is her first novel.