
Mary O’Donoghue, an Irish writer living in Boston and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is senior fiction editor of AGNI and has been part of the editorial team since 2010. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, The Common, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and elsewhere. Her short story collection will appear from Stinging Fly Press in 2023. She is a novelist (Before the House Burns, The Lilliput Press, 2010), poet (Among These Winters, Dedalus Press, 2007; Tulle, Salmon Poetry, 2001), and translator of Irish-language poetry. Her awards and recognition include two Mass Cultural Council fellowships, residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and an Irish Times prize for short fiction responding to economic crisis. She is professor of English at Babson College in Massachusetts. In 2023 she will hold the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University. (updated 12/2022)