Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three short story collections – Multitudes, Intimacies, and most recently Openings. Her most recent novel These Days won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.
In 2021, she won the BBC National Short Story Award with her story All the People Were Mean and Bad and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her awards also include Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Irish Writers’ and Screenwriters’ Guild Award, and Commonwealth Writers’ Award (Canada & Europe). She also runs a masterclass series on the short story for the Faber Academy. Lucy is a former RLF Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.