Richard Tyrrell was born in Ireland and grew up in Dublin’s Liberties district, the historic core of the city, and walked to school every day under the towering vats of Guinness Brewery. He graduated in Pharmacology at University College Dublin but then took up writing. His poems have been published widely in literary magazines, and he was a trustee of the Poetry Society, serving as its first Irish Chairman. He was a finalist in the Bruntswood Prize for Playwriting and on Channel 4’s The Play’s the Thing. He has been a late night DJ, worked at Wendys in Pittsburgh, copyedited for an art historian, interviewed for the Straits Times of Singapore, written for the Guardian, Independent, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, Times, and reviewed for the TLS and Literary Magazine. He is strongly influenced by Irish storytelling, especially Eddie Lenihan and his oral stories. He lives in Kensal Green, North West London, which is famous for its old cemetery. THE FOX OF KENSAL GREEN is his first novel.