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Byddi Lee is the author of Barren (2025) shortlisted for Best Fiction in the Carousel Award Prize 2025, the Rejuvenation Trilogy  (first published by Castrum Press in 2020) and March to November (2014). She has also published flash fiction and short stories.

Byddi also writes for stage and screen and is a member of BBC Writersroom Voices 23. 

Her most recent play is Toxic Relationships, a climate change satire developed during the Writing the Earth project – a collaboration between the Irish Writers Centre and iCRAG. It was staged by Armagh Theatre Group in 2023, 2024, 2025 and has been entered into the Irish Drama Festival circuit in 2026, directed by Margery Quinn.

Byddi co-wrote the play IMPACT – Armagh’s Train Disaster with Malachi Kelly and Tim Hanna. IMPACT was directed by Margey Quinn and staged by the Armagh Theatre Group in the Abbey Lane Theatre in June 2019 and in the Marketplace Theatre, Armagh in October 2022, and November 2023.

IMPACT – Armagh’s Train Disaster, A Play is now available in paperback and ebook. Contact Armagh Theatre Group by emailing [email protected] for performing rights and hard copies of the book in the Armagh area. Copies can also be sourced online.

During the COVID 19 pandemic when all theatres were closed, Byddi teamed up with Malachi and Tim to write Zoomeo & Juliet and Social Bubble Toil & Trouble suitable for live performance delivered through Zoom, produced by Margery Quinn and performed by the Armagh Theatre Group.

Byddi is a co-founder of the spoken word event Flash Fiction Armagh and is co-editor of The Bramley – An Anthology of Flash Fiction Armagh.

Byddi is an Arts Council Northern Ireland supported writer and holds professional membership at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin.