Wendy Erskine’s two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move are published by The Stinging Fly Press and Picador. They were variously books of the year in publications including the Times Literary Supplement, the Observer, the Guardian, The White Review, iNews and the Irish Times. She recently edited well I just kind of like it, an anthology of writing relating to art in the home for Paper Visual Art Books. Other writing has been published by, among others, Rough Trade Books and The Tangerine Press. Her work has been listed for many awards including the Gordon Burn Prize, the Edgehill Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Sunday Times Short Story Prize. She won the Butler Literary Award in 2021 and the Edgehill Readers’ Prize in 2022. She is a full-time secondary school teacher in Belfast.
