Desmond Barry did his MFA at Columbia. Since then he has published three novels with Jonathan Cape, one of which was published by Little Brown in the US. He has had shorter prose published in Granta and The New Yorker. He works with a Uruguayan photographer, Diego Vidart and they have exhibited prose and images in the Wales Millennium Centre (www.falkland-diaries.org.uk) and at the Montevideo Biennale 2011.