Laurie CusackLaurie Cusack studied Creative Writing at Leicester University. He explores Irish diasporic issues from a working-class perspective. His dirty-realist sensibility comes from years of hitchhiking and roughing it, out on the road: picking grapes in Frace; hammering olive trees with a stick in Crete; harvesting dates high in the palm trees of Israel and working long hours in the flower bulb factories of Holland. His writing is visceral, comic and honest with disturbing undertones. Read More Read Less