tracy fahey
 
author

Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of eight books principally concerned with reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Her short story 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. IShe has been shortlisted for numerous awards including Fractured Lit, London Independent Story Prize and Leicester Short Story Prize. In 2023 she received a Saari Fellowship from the Kone Foundation for her writing.. Fahey's short fiction has appeared in sixty 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. Her most recent book, They Shut Me Up (2023, PS Publishing) was shortlisted for Best Novella at the British Fantasy Awards. In 2026 she has two books forthcoming, Queens Of The Crone Age (PS Publishing) and Down We Go Together (Black Shuck Books). Her ninth book contract has been signed and will be announced in May 2026.

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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

​Her 2026 story 'There Where I Am Not' (published by Tractor Beam Vol 4 2026, Thaw issue, illustrated by Julia Dufosse and annotated by Jeff Vandermeer) can be read here.

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