Suad Aldarra is a Syrian writer and engineer based in Dublin. She is the winner of the Rooney Prize Award for Irish Literature 2024. Suad holds a Master’s in Data Analytics from the University of Galway. Suad's debut memoir, I Don’t Want to Talk About Home, published by Penguin in July 2022, and was shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards – Biography of the Year. Suad has written several pieces for the Irish Times and Independent, among other places.