Nathanael O’Reilly is an Irish-Australian poet; he is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Arlington. His books include Boulevard (Beir Bua Press, 2021); (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020); BLUE (above/ground press, 2020); Preparations for Departure (UWAP, 2017), named a Book of the Year in Australian Book Review; Distance (Ginninderra Press, 2015); Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011); and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). More than 300 of his poems have appeared in journals & anthologies published in 14 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 and the United States. His poetry has been shortlisted and highly commended in competitions in Australia, Ireland and the United States. O’Reilly is the poetry editor for Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.
