Deirdre Shanahan has published stories in several journals including The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, and The Lonely Crowd. Her work was included in The Best of British Short Stories 2017 from Salt and, in 2018, she won the Wasafiri International Fiction Award. She is also the recipient of an Arts Council England award for her writing. Her first novel, Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind, was published by Bluemoose Books in 2019
