Irish SciFi and Fantasy Authors

Mike McCormack (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and short-story writer. McCormack was born in London and grew up on a farm in Louisburgh, County Mayo. He studied English and philosophy at the University of Galway.

He lives in Galway with his wife Maeve, where he works as a lecturer and director of the University of Galway's MA in Creative Writing.

He has published two collections of short stories, Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels: Crowe's Requiem, Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones, and This Plague of Souls. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award.