Kerry Neville is an American author (with ancestors from Limerick) of the award-winning (Independent Press Gold Medal) short fiction collection, Necessary Lies, and the forthcoming collection, Remember to Forget Me (Summer 2017). Her fiction and essays have been Pushcart Prize nominees, as well as the recipients of the Texas Institute Prize in Fiction and the Dallas Museum of Art Fiction Prize. She is currently working on a memoir, sections of which appear in her regular column for The Huffington Post, which contends with mental health, recovery, sexuality, and feminism.