Billy O’Callaghan is the author of two short story collections, In Exile (2008) and In Too Deep (2009), both published by Mercier Press (Ireland). He has won the George A. Birmingham Award, the Lunch Hour Stories Prize and the Molly Keane Creative Writing Award, and is a three-time finalist for the RTE Radio 1 P.J. O’Connor Award for Drama. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Pearl, the Southeast Review and Versal.