Damien Kelly is a lecturer and author from the wilds of Donegal, in the northwest of Ireland, where he lives with his wife and children. Its stony myths inform the darkness in his stories. In addition to horror he writes fantasy and, occasionally, science fiction, but always with that cold bite from the winds that touch the Wild Atlantic Way.

His short fiction has appeared in publications from The British Fantasy Society, Flame Tree Press, Sci-Fi Ireland, Lethe Press, Jurassic London and Pelgrane Press, among them the Flame Tree anthologies Witchcraft: Short Stories and Folklore: Horror Short Stories. His story 'The Whipping Boy', first published in Stone Skin Press's The New Gothic, lends its name to The Whipping Boy and Other Stories, a collection he gives free to newsletter subscribers, and his story 'Bandersnatch' can be read on his website.