An Irish-Australian poet born in Warrnambool and raised in Ballarat, Brisbane, and Shepparton, Nathanael O'Reilly attended university at Monash and Ballarat before leaving Australia in 1995. He teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Arlington. His collections include Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010), Distance (Picaro Press, 2014), Preparations for Departure (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2017), (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020), Landmarks (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024), and Dublin Wandering (Recent Work Press, 2024). He received an Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and edits poetry for Antipodes.
