Conor O'Callaghan

Born in 1968 in Newry in Northern Ireland, Conor O'Callaghan grew up in Dundalk. He served as writer-in-residence at University College, Dublin, taught at Wake Forest University, and coheld a Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University. Currently, he teaches at Sheffield Hallam University in England, where he teaches creative writing poetry poetry, and Anglo-Irish literature courses. He is the author of four books of poetry, including Seatown and Earlier Poems (2000), Fiction (2005), and The Sun King (2013). His work has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and O'Callaghan has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Rooney Prize Special Award, the Times Educational Fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Prize.