GERARD MCKEOWN holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queens University, Belfast. His work has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize and longlisted for The BBC National Short Story Award and The Irish Book Awards’ Short Story of the Year, as well as featured in a number of journals and anthologies, including The London Magazine, 3AM, Still Worlds Turning (an anthology of new Irish writing from No Alibis Press) and The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen (edited by Ellen Datlow); and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He is currently working on his first novel. More of his writing can be viewed at www.gerardmckeown.co.uk.

read gerard’s story, ‘drumcree ballee’, here

read our ten questions with gerard, here