TRACY FAHEY

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT IN FINE ART AND HEAD OF POSTGRAUDATE STUDIES, LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

 

Dr. Tracy Fahey is Head of Department in Fine Art and Education in Limerick School of Art and Design, LIT. She has previously worked as Head of Department of Humanities, IT Carlow and Head of Faculty of Design, Griffith College Dublin. She is a former Past President of the Institute of Designers in Ireland and a former Board member of the Limerick Printmakers, the Hunt Museum Limerick, Design Ireland, and the Institute of Design and Disability.

She is also a fiction writer; her first short-story collection, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 2017. She has also published a novel, The Girl in the Fort (Fox Spirit Press), and two collections, New Music For Old Rituals (Black Shuck Books) and I Spit Myself Out. Her short fiction has appeared in over twenty Irish, US and UK anthologies. She is currently working on a screenplay.