Tadhg Coakley is from Mallow and lives
in Cork city. His debut novel The First Sunday in September was shortlisted for
the Mercier Press fiction prize and was published in 2018 to much acclaim. His
sports writing has appeared in The Irish Examiner and The Holly Bough. He has
also been published in The Stinging Fly, The Honest Ulsterman, Silver Apples,
Quarryman and the From the Well anthology. He is a graduate of the MA in
Creative Writing course in University College Cork. www.tadhgcoakley.com