Chris Connolly was born in Dublin in 1983. His fiction has appeared in the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Carve, and the Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction, 2005–2015, among others, and has been broadcast on RTÉ Radio. He recently won the 2015 Lascaux Review Fiction Prize, the Roberts Short Story Competition, and was highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize. For more information visit chrisconnollywriter.com.