John O’Donnell’s fiction has been published in Counterparts (The Stinging Fly Press), The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction,  The Sunday Tribune,  The Sunday Independent, The Stinging Fly,  Books Ireland, The Irish Times, and RTÉ’s The Book on One.  Awards include the Hennessy Award for Emerging Fiction and Cúirt Festival of Literature New Writing Prize for Fiction. He has also published four poetry collections, the latest of which is Sunlight: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2018). His latest short story collection is Mr Hoo and Other Stories (Doire Press).