James Claffey grew up in Dublin, Ireland, and currently lives in California. His collection of short fiction, Blood a Cold Blue, is published by Press 53. He is currently putting the finishing edits to a novel set in 1980s Dublin. His short fiction piece Skull of a Sheep, which first appeared in the New Orleans Review, is in W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International. His flash fiction Kingmaker, which first appeared in Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, also features in W.W. Norton's New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. The Third Time My Father Tried to Kill Me was published in The Best Small Fictions 2015, and he was a finalist in The Best Small Fictions 2016. His work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and when not writing he teaches high school English in Santa Barbara.
