Billy O'Callaghan is from Cork. He has won the 2005 George A. Birmingham Short Story Award, the 2006 Lunch Hour Stories Prize, and the 2007 Molly Keane Creative Writing Award. His short stories have also been shortlisted for a number of Awards, including: The 2003 Sean O'Faolain Short Story Award; the 2004 RTE Radio 1 Francis MacManus Short Story Award, the 2005 Pencil Short Story Prize and the 2006 Faulkner/Wisdom Award. His short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (USA), The Bellevue Literary Review (USA), Ireland's Issues (Ireland), Elysian Fields Quarterly (USA), The Evening Echo (Ireland), Great Mystery & Suspense (USA), The Holly Bough (Ireland), Ireland's Own (Ireland), Lunch Hour Stories (USA), New Fiction (United Kingdom), Southword (Ireland), Versal (Holland), and others.
