Lyric excerpt of “Shine” by David Gray. Copyright © 1993 by Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group. Reprinted by Permission of Alfred Music. All Rights Reserved.
Lyric excerpt of “Lucky” by Radiohead. Written by Mark P. Dombroski, Philip James Selway, Edward John O’Brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Colin Charles Greenwood. Copyright © 1997 Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. Reprinted by Permission of Alfred Music. All Rights Reserved.
About the Author
Belinda McKeon’s debut novel, Solace, won the 2012 Faber Prize, was voted Irish Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her essays and journalism have been published in The Paris Review, the New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She has had plays produced in Dublin and New York, and is under commission to the Abbey Theatre. McKeon was a nominee for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction post. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Rutgers University.