About

Juliana Adelman is from Concord, Massachusetts but now lives in Dublin where she is assistant professor of history at Dublin City University. 

Her debut novel, The Grateful Water is published in 2024 by New Island Books. The Grateful Water is historical crime fiction set in nineteenth-century Dublin and draws on her historical expertise in Irish social history. She has published two nonfiction books: Civilised by Beasts (Manchester, 2020) and Communities of Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (London, 2009). 

For over six years, she published a history column in the science pages of the Irish Times. She has also produced two podcast series, What Would Shackleton Do? (with Kevin Kenny and the Athy Shackleton Committee) and The Comfort Feed (with journalist and social entrepreneur Catherine Cleary). She also researched and presented a radio series on RTE 1 called ‘History on a Plate’ with Catherine Cleary and Claire Cunningham.

She has taken numerous writing courses including at The Novelry and the Irish Writers’ Centre and has been a resident at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig. Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Juliana holds a BSc in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, an MSc in Science Communication from Dublin City University and a PhD in History from the University of Galway. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing. 

She is working on her second novel, a retelling of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. She has also written a number of short stories and lives in hope that one of them might be published.

Juliana Adelman is represented by Imogen Morrell at Greene & Heaton Literary Agents.

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