David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He is the author of the novels Never Never (Tindall Street 2008) and All The Places I’ve Ever Lived ( Urbane 2017) plus the flash fiction and short story collections Sawn-Off Tales (Salt 2006), Aromabingo (Salt 2007), The Half-Life of Songs (Salt 2010) and More Sawn-Off Tales (Salt 2013).
He has written articles for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine, and was a judge for the Bridport Prize. His story The Staring Man was featured in Best British Short Stories. His graphic novel with Dan Berry, The Three Rooms In Valerie’s Head, was published in 2018 on Top Shelf, and David and Dan’s current graphic novel Rivers is out now, also on Top Shelf.
His novel, Out Of The Dark, was published in 2022 on Confingo, his new collection of short stories, Concrete Fields, is out now on Salt Publishing and his collection of stories about whales is out in 2024 on Osmosis. The Guardian said: ‘One hundred and fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others.’
