tracy fahey
 
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Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. Her collection, I Spit Myself Out, won the 2025 Rubery International Book Award and her novella What Happens At The End, was awarded the 2024 Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. and in 2024 she was also shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize. In 2023 she received a Saari Fellowship from the Kone Foundation. Her work principally deals with reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Fahey's short fiction has appeared in fifty Irish, UK, US and Australian anthologies and been reprinted in the British Library Tales of the Weird series and Stephen Jones Best New Horror. She has been Guest of Honour at the UK Ghost Story Festival and Fantasticon, Denmark. Fahey's writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Greece, and Finland, and funded by Irish Grants Under The Arts  and an Individual Arts Bursary.

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Her most recent book, the feminist folklore novella They Shut Me Up (PS Publishing, 2023) was described by Interzone magazine as ‘a gargantuan ice-breaking ship of a book. Like Angela Carter before her, Tracy Fahey has done something fundamentally new and necessary with old and misunderstood stories.’ 

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​Fahey holds a PhD in the Gothic and lectures in creative writing, contemporary Gothic, and folk horror at the Limerick School of Art and Design,

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Sample her short story 'I Look Like You, I Speak Like You, I Walk Like You' here.

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