Hilary McCollum is an Irish writer and creative activist. Her first novel, Golddigger, won the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society prize for historical fiction. In 2021 she completed a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast on (re)creating the lesbian past through historical fiction. She has written four plays about LGBT experience which have been performed in Ireland. Her artwork about lesbian existence has been exhibited in Derry and Inishowen, including at the Lesbians Do Art exhibition for Foyle Pride.