After years of reading the great literary magazine, Crannóg, I simply could not be more thrilled to have a poem of my own in this gorgeous new issue (No. 63), now available to order (€10 + shipping) through crannogmagazine.com.

Here comes the summer! My essay, "Teenage Kicks," on music, discovery, and memory, anchored around The Undertones, is out now in the latest Missouri Review!

Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen...

Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...

I'll share a link once my essay, "Teenage Kicks," is live online, but if you'd appreciate the print edition, you can now order the summer issue of the Missouri Review here! secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...

Today! Listen in from 7:30-8:00 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1:

Best wishes to everybody in, or heading to, Listowel for Writers' Week. So sorry to be missing this year's festivities! #LWW25

I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!

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"blackberry trellis," out now in @haikucrush.bsky.social's annual anthology

It's here! I've long appreciated @newenglandreview.bsky.social's literary reportage and am overjoyed to be included in its latest edition. Traveling from Co. Kerry to Hong Kong to Rhode Island, this essay found its dream home in a special folio celebrating the 30th anniversary of Chungking Express.

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Over the past couple of years, The Madrigal and The Martello have jointly published An Áitiúil, an anthology exploring "the local" in its many forms. Honored to have a photo featured in Vol. II — and now two more coming out this week, in the third and final Vol. III.