David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta online, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review and A Public Space, in the Faber New Irish Writing anthology, ‘Being Various’, edited by Lucy Caldwell, in ‘The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories’, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and on BBC and RTÉ radio. His first book, ‘Darker With the Lights On’, is published by Transit Books and Carcanet Press.