
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism , The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays , I Am Sitting in a Room , Sanctuary , Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room , which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian , New York Times , London Review of Books , Times Literary Supplement , Bookforum , frieze and Artforum . He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London.