Tracy Fahey is an Irish academic and award-winning author of nine books, principally concerned with themes of reimagined folklore and female Gothic. Her work has been awarded the 2025 Rubery International Book Award and the 2024 Paul Cave Prize For Literature. In 2023 she was granted a Saari Fellowship for her writing by the Kone Foundation, Finland. Her books have been shortlisted for British Fantasy Awards for Best Collection (2017, 2022) and Best Novella (2024). Her short fiction has appeared in over fifty international anthologies and has been shortlisted for Fractured Literary and the London Independent Story Prize. Her writing is the subject of academic study and papers on her work have been delivered at conferences – The Year of Gothic Women (University of Dundee 2023), Haunted Futures (University College Cork 2025) and Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body (University of Wroclaw 2026). Her eighth book, Queens Of The Crone Age, released in 2026 by PS Publishing, focuses on the Cailleach, the Irish Hag and explores the transformative and mythical dimensions of female power at mid-life. Fahey holds a PhD on the Gothic in visual arts, and has published on folklore, folk horror, domestic uncanny, medical Gothic, transgressive art, and death culture. She is Research Lead of the Layered Places research group at Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS, where she lectures in Critical and Contextual Studies
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