About the author

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Oisín Fagan has had short fiction published in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret and the anthology Young Irelanders, with work featured in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In 2016, he won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages, his first collection, was published in 2016. He is a recipient of the 2016 and 2018 Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.

In addition to writing, Oisín is an activist and language teacher. He works with the Irish Housing Network and can usually be found campaigning on social and economic issues.

Oisín was born in the US and raised in Moynalvey, County Meath. He completed a BA in Trinity College, and currently lives and works in Dublin.

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