Tracy Fahey

Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. In 2025, her collection 'I Spit Myself Out' won the Rubery International Book Award, and in 2024 her novella 'What Happens At The End' was awarded the Paul Cave Prize for Literature. Fahey has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. She has been shortlisted several short story prizes, most recently, the 2024 London Independent Story Prize. In 2023 she received a Saari Fellowship from the Kone Foundation. Her work principally deals with reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Fahey's short fiction has appeared in fifty 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.

​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, TUS.