A Stint in Your Spotlight

My second full-length collection, Real Estate, was published in May 2026 from Salmon Poetry.
My first full-length collection, Nightlight, was published in February 2023 from Salmon Poetry.

My sixth chapbook, Masters, was published by The Emma Press in October 2025.
My fifth chapbook, I Was a Teenage Exorcist, was published by Chaps Poetry/Squares & Rebels Press in September 2024.
My fourth chapbook, Faultlines, an online Choose Your Own Adventure sonnet, was published by Voidspace in 2022, with a print version released in March 2024.
My third chapbook, HIKE, a prose/haiku hybrid novella thing was published by Bear Creek Press in 2022. It was a limited edition and is now out of print.
My second chapbook, Carcass, was published in 2020 by Seven Kitchens Press.
My first chapbook, Circumference, is set between the 1930’s and 1950’s and tells of the teenage years and adult return of its hero Tommy Martin to his home town of Pepperell, MA. It is the first volume of a verse novel, also called Circumference, which is underway. The original section was published in August 2018 by Finishing Line Press.

In 2016, I founded and continue to edit Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry which for ten years and 18 issues published biannually in March and August before concluding in 2025.

I have had numerous publications since I started submitting work for consideration in 2012. For a full list of these (and other publications) please visit the publications page. Fiction and Plays are listed on the Other Works page.

Awards/Mentorships etc.
– Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2024 by Squares & Rebels Press for my poem ‘Codicil’
– Awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary in 2023 
– Awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award in 2022
– Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022 by The Storms for my poem ‘Romantic Landscape’
– Awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary in 2021
– Winner of 2021 Dedalus Press’ Local Wonders Postcard Competition (with ‘Slow Evening’) 
– Shortlisted for the 2020 Bray Literary Festival Competition (with ‘Milk Breath’)
– Shortlisted for the 2020 Cúirt New Writing Prize (with ‘Home Invasion’)
– Selected for Poetry Ireland’s 2020 Introductions Series 
– Highly Commended in the 2019 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awards
– 2nd Place in the 2019 Bray Literary Festival Competition (with ‘Vegas Epithalamion’)
– Read on RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena, 20th June 2019
– Hennessy New Irish Writing Award February 2019
– Awarded a mentorship for 2018/2019 with Nell Regan under Words Ireland’s National Mentorship Scheme
– Circumference was a finalist for the 2017 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize
– One of the winners of Sibling Rivalry Press’ HBO/Looking Competition, with the poem ‘The New World’
– Co-founded and co-curated Well-Versed, a monthly evening of LGBTQ+ poets from Jan 2015 – March 2016
– 2015 Glitterwolf Poet Laureate

A complete Writing CV is available on request.