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Mary O’Donoghue is senior fiction editor of AGNI and has been part of the editorial team since 2010. She is a short story writer (The Hour After Happy Hour, Stinging Fly Press, 2023) and novelist (Before the House Burns, The Lilliput Press, 2010). She has published poetry collections with Salmon Poetry and Dedalus Press and translations of Irish-language poetry in volumes from Yale University Press, Cló Iar-Chonnacht, and Bloodaxe Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Common, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Irish Times, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and elsewhere. O’Donoghue’s awards and recognitions 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 and, in 2023, held the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University. (updated 4/2025)