Eddie Stack

Eddie Stack is an Irish writer and author of four collections of short stories, a novel and several novellas. He received a Top 100 Irish American Award and American Small Press of the Year Award in response to his first book of short fiction, The West: Stories from Ireland, which was published by Island House (US) and Bloomsbury (UK). His work is included in State of the Art: Stories from New Irish Writers; Irish Christmas Stories, The Clare Anthology and Fiction in the Classroom. His stories have also appeared in literary reviews Fiction, Confrontation, Whispers & Shouts and Criterion. Stories from The West have been read on radio worldwide and a CD of four stories read by the author, with music by Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill is also available. He recently won the Caomhnú Award for short fiction and an Irish Writers 'Lonely Voices' award. His novel Heads, was included in MediaBistro's Best eBooks of 2010 List.

Eddie Stack was co-founder and artistic director of the Irish Arts Foundation in San Francisco. He was a member of the Irish trad group Last Night's Fun with Tommy Peoples, Paddy Keenan, Johnny Moynihan and the late Shane Holden. He is currently working on a book about the culture and traditional arts of Doolin, County Clare. Due out in 2014, the book includes interviews with Micho Russell and Paddy Shannon as well as profiles on the Russell and Killoughery brothers. It has features on storytelling, dancing as well as music and songs from Doolin. Eddie Stack teaches at UC Berkeley, California.

more information: www.eddiestack.com