Aiden O’Reilly’s debut short story collection Greetings Hero was published in 2014. He studied mathematics and has worked as a translator, a building-site worker, an IT teacher, and a property magazine editor. He won the biannual McLaverty award and his fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Dublin Review, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, Litro Magazine, The Missouri Review, Winter Papers, The Dublin Review of Books, and many other places.
Aiden O’Reilly
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)