Billy O'Callaghan was born in Cork in 1974, and is the author of three novels: The Dead House, (Brandon/O'Brien Press, 2017), My Coney Island Baby (Jonathan Cape/Harper Collins, 2019), Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape, 2021) and four short story collections: In Exile (Mercier Press, 2008), In Too Deep (Mercier Press, 2009) The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (New Island Books, 2013) and The Boatman and Other Stories (Harper Collins, 2020)