The Guardian writes of Wendy Erskine’s collection of stories: ‘She identifies what is most fruitful about her characters’ predicaments – the emotional core, the most resonant ironies – and traces with rapt and infectious attention their doomed
if valiant attempts to shimmy away from the real.’ The stories, the Dublin Review of
Books writes, ‘are gloriously offbeat tales of people who live on the flip side and are out of step with those around them.’
(Colm Tóibín)
Wendy Erskine’s two prize-winning short story collections, Sweet
Home and Dance Move, are published by The Stinging Fly Press and
Picador. Other fiction has been published by, among others, Rough Trade Book
and The Tangerine Press. She recently edited Well I Just Kind of Like It,
an anthology about the home and art, produced by Paper Visual Art. In 2022 she was a Seamus Heaney Fellow at
Queen’s University. She is a full-time
secondary school teacher.