Keith Ridgway is from Dublin. He is the author of The Long Falling (Faber, 1998), The Parts(Faber, 2003), Animals (Fourth Estate, 2007), and Hawthorn & Child (Granta Books, 2012). His short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, Stinging Fly, and others. He lives in London.