Mary O'Donoghue

Mary O'Donoghue (born 1975) is an Irish poet and fiction writer. She grew up in Co. Clare, Ireland. Her first poetry collection Tulle was published in 2001; her second collection Among These Winters appeared in 2007. Her poems have appeared widely in Irish and international journals and anthologies, including The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2004). Her short stories have been published in The Dublin Review, The Recorder, AGNI, Salamander, Literary Imagination, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Before the House Burns was published in spring 2010, and is described by Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist Anne Enright as "Electric, real, and utterly modern: this is a voice to welcome and to watch." Mary O'Donoghue's awards for fiction include Hennessy/Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer and a writer's bursary from Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is an associate professor of English in the Arts and Humanities division at Babson College, Massachusetts, and she lives in Boston.