KATE BARRY was born in 1975 in Cork, Ireland. Her work has appeared in the Sunday Tribune, Social & Personal and Metropolitan, and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She has twice been shortlisted for a Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and been longlisted for the Colm Tóibín Short Story Award. She is currently working on a series of short stories as part of The Stinging Fly fiction workshop. As well as writing herself, Kate loves chatting to other writers and has moderated events at various festivals including Kinsale Words by Water Festival, Dublin Book Festival and the West Cork Literary Festival.