Irish-Australian poet Nathanael O'Reilly is the author of sixteen collections, including Ghosts in the Landscape (Liquid Amber Press, 2027); Terminals (above/ground press, 2025); Separation Blues: Poems 1994-2024 (Flying Islands, 2024); Dublin Wandering (Recent Work Press, 2024); Landmarks (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024); Selected Poems of Ned Kelly (Downingfield Press, 2024); Boulevard (Downingfield Press, 2024); (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020); Preparations for Departure (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2017), named a Book of the Year in Australian Book Review; andDistance (Ginninderra Press, 2015). More than 390 of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies published in fifteen countries. O'Reilly received an Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts in 2010 and has been a writer-in-residence at Booranga Writers' Centre in Australia and All Saints Heritage Centre in Ireland. He has given invited readings in Australia, Canada, England, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, and the United States. He has been a finalist and winner in poetry competitions in Australia, Ireland, and the United States. O'Reilly is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Texas at Arlington.
