Liam Cagney

Liam Cagney’s writing has been described by the Irish Times as ‘stunningly strange and powerful’. His fiction has been shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize, anthologised in The Other Irish Tradition (Dalkey Archive Press) and published in journals like Winter Papers, The Moth and gorse. His essays have been published in TOLKA, gorse, Numéro and PVA and broadcast on Irish national radio. Liam’s criticism regularly appears in places like the Guardian, the Spectator, the TLS, the Telegraph, DJ Mag and Gramophone. As a musicologist, he is the author of two books: the monograph Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and the edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music (Oxford University Press, 2024). Liam teaches at BIMM University and lives in Berlin.

His debut non-fiction book BERGHAIN NIGHTS was published in 2025.