
Tracy Fahey
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Tracy Fahey is the Irish author of six books and the 2024 winner of The Paul Cave Prize For Literature. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. Fahey has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize (2024) and the Leicester Short Story Prize (2021). She was granted a Saari Fellowship in 2023 by the Kone Foundation. Her work principally deals with reimagined folklore and female Gothic.
Fahey’s short fiction has appeared in more than 40 Irish, UK, US and Australian anthologies and has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. She has been described by Lol Tolhurst of The Cure as ‘a modern-day gothic whose Kafkaesque otherworldly stories are beautifully disturbing.’ Her writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Greece, and Finland and funded by Irish Arts grants; an Individual Arts Bursary and a Grants Under The Arts award.
Fahey holds a PhD in the Gothic and lectures in creative writing at Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS.
‘At Cove Park, I’ll be working on my seventh book which offers a feminist reframing of the Irish Cailleach, or Hag, within a contemporary context. I’m excited at this opportunity to immerse myself in the creative community of Cove Park and to research comparative Scottish myths of the Cailleach.’