Brian Dillon (Dublin, 1969) is the author of The Great Explosion (finalist for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room (Irish Book Award for non-fiction); In Anagrama he has published Ensayismo and Imaginemos una phrase. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.