Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week short-story competition, she was also a prize-winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin short-story competition. Her best-selling novel Tatty was short-listed for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award and long-listed for the Orange Prize in the UK. New Island Books re-issued her critically-acclaimed Dublin trilogy- The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker in 2006. The paperback of her highly acclaimed new novel, Last Train from Liguria(Atlantic Books), will be published this coming April.