Lindsay J. Sedgwick
Lindsay J. Sedgwick is a former journalist who became one of Ireland’s most versatile literary voices and is an award-winning writer across genre, mediums and audiences. Her work ranges from children’s literature to animation series, from Dublin to the world stage. A screenwriter since the 1990s, Sedgwick has published eight books of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature since 2017. Her beloved Wulfie children’s series has delighted young readers since 2020, while her adult fiction explores the complex emotional terrain of contemporary Irish life. Punky, the award-winning animation series she created, has been acknowledged as the first mainstream cartoon series in which the man character had special needs (Down’s syndrome) and has been available in 100+ countries, with more than five million YouTube hits. A former Chair of the Irish Writers Union, she became lectures in screenwriting at Maynooth University where she was Screenwriter in Residence 2016–17.
