Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from County Mayo in Ireland. He is the author of Solar Bones, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2017; Notes from a Coma, which was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award; Crowe’s Requiem; and Getting It in the Head, which was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and the short story collection Forensic Songs. He lives in Galway.