Logan McKinney is a graduate student currently studying at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where he is enrolled in the MA literature program. He is particularly interested in the modernist fiction of Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, and James Joyce. His essay “Spaces Beyond Death: Anonymous Hellscapes in the Fiction of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Ligotti” will be the first piece he’s presented at a conference, as well as his first contribution to the field of Irish Studies.