
Dublin-born author Trevor Byrne received exceptional critical acclaim for his first novel Ghosts & Lightning (2009); his short fiction includes Nothing at the Top, Mad for Rain and I’ve Hardly Slept at All in the New Island anthology of Irish Short Fiction. His second novel will appear in 2013 and he will begin research and work on his third novel during his residency at the CCI. Of Ghosts and Lightning, Roddy Doyle says: “a very powerful writer… often funny, sometimes frightening, always very human. I loved it”.