Barry McKinley is an Irish writer. His play, Elysium Nevada, was nominated for Best New Play, Irish Theatre Awards 2010. He has been short-listed on two occasions for the Hennessy Literary Award and has written plays for BBC Radio 4 and RTE.

Barry’s story Derby of Lost Souls is in Weird Lies. He describes it as:Two dumb young men in an Irish opium field sell their souls to the devil.