Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories-which have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories-have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Keegan currently holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
An award-winning narrator, Aidan Kelly appears regularly in theater and television, most notably at the Abbey Theatre, the national theater of Ireland.