Wendy Erskine is an author. She is also head of English and a drama teacher at a grammar school in east Belfast.Erskine's work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Female Lines: New Writing from Northern Ireland and Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, and on BBC Radio 4. Her first book, the collection "Sweet Home," was published in 2018. It won the 2020 Butler Literary Award, and was Book of the Year in the Guardian, The White Review, Observer, New Statesman, and TLS.