Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. In 2024, she won the Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize (2024) and the Leicester Short Story Prize (2021). She was granted a Saari Fellowship for 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. Her writing is supported by residencies in Ireland, Greece and Finland and funded by Grants Under The Arts  (Co. Clare) and an Individual Arts Bursary (Co. Limerick).

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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 on the Gothic and lectures in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Limerick School of Art and Design.

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Sample one of her short stories here.

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