Deirdre Shanahan has had short stories published in New Writing 5 (Vintage) and Edgeways (Flight Press/Spread the Word) as well as journals in Ireland and the US including the Mass...view moreDeirdre Shanahan has had short stories published in New Writing 5 (Vintage) and Edgeways (Flight Press/Spread the Word) as well as journals in Ireland and the US including the Massachusetts Review and the Southern Review. She has read at Liars League and Word Factory. Her longer fiction has won the Lightship Novel Prize and a bursary from Arts Council England.view less