Mary O’Donoghue was born in 1975 and grew up in Co. Clare. Her first poetry collection Tulle was published in 2001, and her poems have appeared widely in Irish and international periodicals and anthologies, including The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2004). Her second poetry collection, Among These Winters, appeared from Dedalus Press in 2007. Her short stories have been published in The Dublin Review, The Recorder, AGNI, Salamander, and elsewhere. Her awards include Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer and a writer’s bursary from Massachusetts Cultural Council. She teaches in the Arts and Humanities Department at Babson College, Massachusetts, and she lives in Boston.
Her first novel, Before the House Burns, will be published by the Lilliput
Press, Dublin, in spring 2010.