Marc Ó Riain’s work has been published in the Sunday Tribune, Southword, The Galway Review, and the anthology Abandoned Darlings.

His fiction has been shortlisted for a Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and his poetry for the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. He holds an MA in Writing from NUI Galway and is a part-time creative writing tutor.

He posts, occasionally, as An Idler on the Loop on Facebook. Marc is from Kilkee, County Clare.