Riley Johnston is a debut novelist from Belfast, where she works as a secondary school teacher. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies alongside Roddy Doyle and Lisa McInerney, and on BBC Radio 4 recorded by Tara Lynn O’Neill (Derry Girls). She was first runner up in the Mairtín Crawford Short Story Award and an early draft of her debut novel, A Holy Show, was longlisted in the Discoveries Prize and the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair.