Billy O'Callaghan, from Cork, Ireland, has authored three short story collections: In Exile (Mercier Press, 2008), In Too Deep (Mercier Press, 2009), and The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (New Island, 2013), which won a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award; and a novel, The Dead House (Brandon/O'Brien Press, 2017), forthcoming in a U.S. edition from Arcade/Skyhorse in Spring 2018. Recent stories have appeared in the Chattahoochee Review, Kenyon Review, London Magazine, Salamander and the Saturday Evening Post.