Billy O’Callaghan

Billy O’Callaghan, from Cork, is the author of four short story collections and four novels, including My Coney Island Baby (Harper, 2019), The Boatman and Other Stories (Harper, 2020) and Life Sentences (Godine, 2022). His short stories have appeared in AGNI, Fiction, Ploughshares, the Saturday Evening Post, South Carolina Review, the Stinging Fly, Threepenny Review, Winter Papers, and elsewhere. His latest novel, The Paper Man, was published by Godine in 2023. (Updated 1/2026)