SARAH GILMARTIN is a critic who reviews fiction for the Irish Times. She is co-editor of the anthology Stinging Fly  Stories and has an MFA from University College Dublin. She won Best Playwright  at the inaugural Short+Sweet Dublin  festival. Her short stories have been  published in The Dublin Review, New  Irish Writing and shortlisted for the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Award. Her story ‘The Wife’ won the 2020 Máirtín Crawford Award at Belfast Book Festival.