Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Fiction Award winning short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was also a Best Book Pick of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Public Library, Self Magazine, The New York Times, and The Austin Public Library Mayor’s Book Blub Pick of 2011. Her novel, The Confusion of Languages, set in Jordan during the Arab Spring, led to book events (both in-person and virtual) in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Israel, Indonesia, Belgium, Turkey, Cyprus, and across the United States.

Siobhan’s essays and stories have been featured in The New York Times Modern Love, Washington Post Magazine, NPR’s Morning Edition, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Stars and Stripes, The Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, the anthology Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, among others, and have been performed by both national and international theater groups. 

Her current work is inspired by real events and explores the many controversies surrounding the Battle of the Little Bighorn. As a woman and Army spouse, Siobhan tackles unique perspectives of this violent chapter in American history. She also hosts a history-themed YouTube channel, @SiobhanFallon7, which focuses on the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry and military families living on the American frontier.

Siobhan is the wife of an active-duty Army officer who served three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Siobhan, her husband, and their two daughters (and too many cats) currently live in Nicosia, Cyprus.