Tanya Farrelly

Tanya Farrelly works as an EFL teacher, and facilitates creative writing classes for South Dublin County Council. Her stories have won prizes and been shortlisted in such competitions as the Hennessy Awards, the RTÉ Francis Mac Manus Awards (2002/2015), Fish and the Cúirt New Writing Prize. Runner-up in the William Trevor International Short Story Competition in both 2008 and 2009, her stories have appeared in literary journals such as the Cúirt Annual, Crannog magazine, and the Incubator Journal. She is also the author of the novel The Girl Behind the Lens. When Black Dogs Sing is the winner of the Kate O'Brien Award.