Carys Davies

Carys Davies is the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush (Salt 2007) and The Redemption of Galen Pike (Salt 2014), which won the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She is also the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's V S Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award and a Northern Writers' Award, and has been nominated for many others, including The Sunday Times/EFG Short Story Award and the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen Short Story Competition. Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and widely published in magazines, anthologies and online, including, most recently, in The Dublin Review, Granta New Writing, Prospect, The Royal Society of Literature Review, The Stinging Fly, New Welsh Short Stories, and The Story Love Loss & The Lives Of Women 100 Great Short Stories. Born in Wales, she grew up in the Midlands, lived and worked for 11 years in New York and Chicago, and now lives in Lancaster.