Stephen Brophy is the winner of the 2021 Montana Prize in Fiction and the Silver Apples Magazine Short Story Competition. He has also been shortlisted for the Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award. He was a recipient of a Munster Literature Centre Mentoring Fellowship and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. His short fiction appears in Cutbank, The Honest Ulsterman, and various other magazines. He lives in Cork, Ireland.