s3e33 October 30, 2025
Mary O’Donnell
Writer
Mary O’Donnell has written award-winning poetry, novels, short fiction collections and dynamic essays. Published fiction includes the novels The Elysium Testament and Where They Lie. In 2023 she received an An Post/Irish Book Award for her political poem ‘Vectors in Kabul’. In 2026 Wake Forest University Press (USA) will publish her ninth poetry collection, Tenderness. In May this year, a new short fiction collection, Walking Ghosts was published by Mercier Press, and her translated short stories—Nomadas—will appear in Argentina next year. Her latest novel, The Good Daughter, will be published by Epoque Press in late 2026 in the UK.
