About

About

Anne McCarthy is a women’s fiction novelist whose work centers on friendship, ambition, and the emotional lives of modern women. Her stories blend warmth, humor, and keen cultural observation, exploring how women navigate love, work, and identity in a fast-changing world. She is represented by Maria Whelan at Mushens Entertainment in London.

In addition to her fiction, Anne is an accomplished journalist and media analyst whose writing has appeared in leading international publications including Variety, The Washington Post, BBC, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan. She currently covers Saturday Night Live for Variety and reports from the Cannes Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week.

Anne holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Westminster and trained at the Yale Writers’ Workshop and the Second City writing program. She was selected for Soho Theatre’s Writers’ Lab in London and has taught pitching and writing workshops for organizations such as the Irish Writers Centre and Female Film Club.

Raised in the Midwest, she divides her time between St. Louis, New York, London, and Paris.