Jaki McCarrick reads ‘Blackbird’ from Issue Eleven of The Lonely Crowd.

Jaki McCarrick is an award-winning writer of plays, poetry and fiction. Her play LEOPOLDVILLE won the 2010 Papatango Prize for New Writing, and her most recent play, THE NATURALISTS, premiered in New York to rave reviews: “Best Bet” International Theatre, Theatre is Easy; “Impeccable, a gift to its actors” New York Times; “Beautifully performed” The New Yorker. Staged by The Pond Theatre Company at the Soho Repertory Theatre, NY. Her play BELFAST GIRLS was developed at the National Theatre Studio, London, was shortlisted for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the 2014 BBC Tony Doyle Award. It premiered in the US in Chicago to much critical acclaim. Jaki’s short story, The Visit, won the 2010 Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize and appears in the 2012 Anthology of Best British Short Stories (Salt). Her story collection, The Scattering, was published by Seren Books and was shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Prize. Jaki, who was longlisted for the inaugural Irish Fiction Laureate, is currently editing her first novel.

(Issue Eleven of The Lonely Crowd is currently out if print.)

Photo by Jo Mazelis.