Writers in the Attic- Billy O'Callaghan

Billy O'Callaghan, from Cork, is the author of four short story collections – In Exile (Mercier, 2008); In Too Deep (Mercier, 2009); The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind (New Island, 2013); and The Boatman and Other Stories (Cape, 2020) – and four novels – The Dead House (O'Brien, 2017); My Coney Island Baby (Jonathan Cape, 2019); Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape, 2021); and The Paper Man (Jonathan Cape, 2023).

Winner of the Irish Book Award and short-listed for the COSTA Short Story Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award among numerous other honours, his books have been translated into fourteen languages and his short stories have appeared widely, in such journals such as Agni, Fiction, the Fiddlehead, the Kenyon Review, the Massachusetts Review, Narrative, Ploughshares, Salamander, the Saturday Evening Post, the South Carolina Review, the Stinging Fly, the Threepenny Review and Winter Papers.