Paul McQuade is an award-winning writer and translator. He was born in Glasgow and has since lived in Edinburgh, Paris, Tokyo and New York State. He recently completed a PhD at Cornell. He was awarded the Sceptre Prize for New Writing 2014, the Masters Review Award 2015 and the ACF London Writing Prize 2017. His stories have been shortlisted for the White Review Prize and the Bridport Prize. He has also been published in Gutter, Pank, Structo and Minor Literatures, and has had stories featured in anthologies including Best British Short Stories 2019, Best of British Fantasy 2018, Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing and Haunted Voices: An Anthology of Gothic Storytelling from Scotland. In 2018, he was published alongside Kirsty Logan in Hometown Tales: Glasgow, as part of Weidenfeld & Nicolson’s Hometown Tales series, which champions writing from and about diverse regions across the UK. In January 2021, a collaborative essay with Logan was published in Dodo Ink’s anthology Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health. Paul’s first collection of short stories, Between Tongues, was published in the UK by Confingo in August 2021.

Twitter: @pgmcq

Website: www.paulmcquade.com

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‘The stories in Paul McQuade’s Between Tongues are uncanny little jewels. Some are casually surreal, while others thrum with the current of a realization about to burst.’ – Irina Dumitrescu, Times Literary Supplement

‘Equally at home with the weird and the everyday, McQuade is a singular talent worth seeking out.’ – The Herald (Scotland)

‘For a first collection this is a remarkable book. Paul McQuade isn’t one for the future, but one for now.’ – Bookmunch