Garbhan Downey

Garbhan Downey has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, newspaper editor, literary editor and novelist. He is currently Director of Communications & Marketing for Culture Company 2013, which will deliver Derry’s City of Culture year. Downey’s last novel, The American Envoy (2010), was the first fiction to be issued simultaneously as a paperback and as an e-book by an Irish publishing house – Guildhall Press. His new short story collection ‘The Rookie and the Thief’ will be released in winter 2011. Downey lives in Derry with his wife Una, and children Fiachra and Bronagh.