Seán Hewitt was born in 1990 and read English at the University of Cambridge, where he received his college’s Emily Davies and Lilias Sophia Ashworth Hallett scholarships and twice received the Charity Reeves Prize in English. He is a fiction reviewer for The Irish Times and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. His debut pamphlet, ‘Lantern’ (Offord Road Books, 2019) is Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice for 2019. His debut collection is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape.