Roisín O’Donnell has family roots in Derry city and now lives in County Meath. Her collection of stories Wild Quiet was published by New Island Books; it was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award, longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and chosen as one of the Irish Times ‘Books of the Year.’ Her short fiction has won the An Post Irish Book Award for Story of the Year, and her stories can be found in major anthologies of Irish women’s writing The Long Gaze Back and The Glass Shore. Most recently one of her stories was adapted for stage by Big Telly Theatre Company, as part of the Belfast International Festival. roisinodonnell.com
Roisín O’Donnell
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)