Colin Barrett was born in Canada in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009, he was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. Homesickness was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, and Young Skins won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His work has been published in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Granta and The Stinging Fly. In 2015, Barrett was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35.”

Colin Barrett’s Festival appearance is generously supported by Culture Ireland.

Photo credit: Rolex/Anoush Abrar.