David Keenan's This Is Memorial Device won the Collyer Bristow Award for Debut Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. His second novel, For the Good Times won the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize. Edna O'Brien described reading his third novel, Xstabeth (Europa, 2022), as "feel[ing] like being cut open to the accompanying sound of ecstatic music." He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
This biography was last updated on 03/22/2022.
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