Mary O'Donoghue is a short story writer, novelist, poet, and translator of Irish-language poetry. She teaches writing fiction, literature, and first-year writing classes at Babson College. She is the author of the novel Before the House Burns (The Lilliput Press, 2010) and the poetry collections Among These Winters (Dedalus Press, 2007) and Tulle (Salmon Poetry, 2001). Her fiction has appeared in many US and European publications: Subtropics, The Common, Granta, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Irish Times, Sunday Times UK, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review, and elsewhere. Her translations are published in Leabhar na hAthghabhala/ Poems of Repossession (Bloodaxe Books/ Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 2016) and Sean O Riordain Selected Poems (Yale University Press, 2014). Her collaborative translations of Louis de Paor's poetry appear in The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue (Bloodaxe, 2014), agus rud eile de/and another thing (Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 2010), Ag Greadadh Bas sa Reilig/Clapping in the Cemetery (Cl Iar-Chonnachta, 2005), and elsewhere. She is Fiction Editor at the literary journal AGNI.