Dr. Tracy Fahey is an author based in Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare. Her fiction is primarily concerned with folklore, uncanny, liminal spaces, and the body. She has written six books, one novel, one novella, and four collections, published with UK presses. Her short fiction has appeared in more than 40 Irish, UK, US and Australian anthologies and has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
Her short story collections ‘The Unheimlich Manoeuvre’ (2016) and ‘I Spit Myself Out’ {2021) have been finalists in the British Fantasy Awards, and she has been shortlisted for both the London Independent Story Prize and the Leicester Short Story prize. Her latest novella, ‘They Shut Me Up’ (PS Publishing, 2023) was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2024. She is a recipient of the Saari Fellowship (2023) and Liminisa Residency for writers, Greece (2019), and her writing has been commissioned by visual artists Marie Brett, Naomhan Joyce and the Crawford School of Art.
Fahey holds a PhD in the Gothic from MIC, UL (2015). Her academic writing on the Gothic and folklore has appeared in Irish, English, Italian, Dutch and Australian edited collections. She lectures in Critical and Contextual Studies at Limerick School of Art and Design.