Mia Gallagher’s novels are HellFire (Penguin, 2006), awarded the Irish Tatler Literature Award 2007, and Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (New Island, 2016), which was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness award in 2016, and will be published by Head of Zeus in the UK in summer 2018.
Her short fiction has been widely published in Ireland and internationally; she has been awarded the START chapbook prize (2005) and nominated for Hennessy, Fish and Trevor/Bowen awards (1990, 2003, 2011). In 2016 she edited the Fear & Fantasy issue of The Stinging Fly and is now one of the journal’s contributing editors. Shift, a collection of her stories, will be published by New Island in 2018. Mia has also written/devised for the theatre since 1991, touring nationally and internationally. She is currently working on a new novel, funded by a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.