Thomas McCarthy

Thomas McCarthy was born in Mallow, Co. Cork Ireland and educated there and in Dublin. He has lived there and now has his home in Peterborough, UK. His stories have been published in PEN New Fiction 1 & 2; Sunk Island Review; Paris Transcontinental; The Literary Review; Cimarron Review; New Irish Writing; The Irish Press; StoryQuarterly. A collection of stories, The Last Survivor, was published in 1985. Citron Press published a novel A Fine Country in May 2000. A further collection of stories,...See more

Thomas McCarthy was born in Mallow, Co. Cork Ireland and educated there and in Dublin. He has lived there and now has his home in Peterborough, UK. His stories have been published in PEN New Fiction 1 & 2; Sunk Island Review; Paris Transcontinental; The Literary Review; Cimarron Review; New Irish Writing; The Irish Press; StoryQuarterly. A collection of stories, The Last Survivor, was published in 1985. Citron Press published a novel A Fine Country in May 2000. A further collection of stories, Finals Day & Other Stories, was published in October 2002. His essay "At Least You'll Never Starve" is in the collection Writers On The Job, published by Hopewell Publications in the U.S. in 2008, and another esssay is to be included in an anthology due out from Serving House Books in 2010. At present, he is at work on a novel, Flannery's World, and a trilogy of linked stories called Morning Has Broken. See less