Michael Magee

Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was the winner of the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023, the Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction 2023, and the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year 2023.