Evelyn Conlon, short story writer, novelist and essayist is widely anthologised and translated, most recently into Tamil, Chinese and Greek. She is the editor/co-editor of four anthologies including Cutting the Night in Two, and Later On - a collection of work commissioned as a 30th anniversary memorial to a bombing in her hometown. This work was subsequently used as a basis for a conference and published papers in Forli University, Italy, named The Language of War. The title story of her collection, Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour, was performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. She has also published four novels, the last of which, Not the Same Sky, has been, gratifyingly, translated into Irish, 2026. She has been writer-in-residence in many places at home and internationally, and is Adjunct Professor with Carlow University, Pittsburgh, MFA.  Her last short story collection, Moving About the Place, 2021, was followed by Reading Rites: Books, writing and other things that matter,2023, a collection of essays on her life. Telling Truths, a collection of essays about her work, was edited by Teresa Caneda-Cabrera, and published by Peter Lang, 2023.