Colm Ó Ceallacháin lives in Cork. His first short story collection, I dTír Mhilis na mBeo, was published in 2017, a collection that shared first prize in that year’s Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary competition for a work of prose, as well as being shortlisted for Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin. He has won several other prizes at Oireachtas na Gaeilge, and has been awarded literary bursaries from the Arts Council on a number of occasions. His work has appeared in Comhar, Feasta, Aneas, gorse and Southword, as well as in a number of anthologies such as Díolaim/Antologia (Focail Eile/Other Words), Best European Fiction 2019 (Dalkey Archive Press) and Strokestown Poetry Anthology 2020. Ré na bhFathach is his second collection of short stories.