Barbara Leahy is from Cork city in Ireland. She started writing in 2010, and since then her stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals, been broadcast on national radio, and won several prizes. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in both the short story and flash fiction categories. One of her flash fictions will appear in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine in April 2015. This is her first publication with Litro.