Kelly Creighton is a Belfast-born writer who teaches creative writing, facilitates arts projects for community groups, and mentors new writers. Creighton is the founding editor of the Incubator Journal, which showcases the contemporary Irish story. She writes mostly crime and literary fiction, and her work has appeared in Litro, the Stinging Fly, Banshee, Cyphers, and more. Her story “And Three Things Bumped” features in Salt Publishing’s Best British Short Stories 2018. Creighton’s latest work is the short story collection Bank Holiday Hurricane, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and shortlisted in the Short Story Collection category of the Saboteur Awards.