Lucy Caldwell (1981, United Kingdom), born in Belfast, is the author of several novels, stage plays, radio dramas, and two short story collections, with a third, Openings, forthcoming (Faber, 2024). She is editor of the anthology Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019). Awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the George Devine Award, and the BBC National Short Story Award in 2021. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
