Seán Hewitt

Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. His debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. Tongues of Fire won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award. In 2020, he was chosen by The Sunday Times as one of their "30 under 30" artists in Ireland. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (2022), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022, and was shortlisted for a LAMBDA Award, Foyles Book of the Year (Non-Fiction), the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and an Irish Book Award. A collaboration with the artist Luke Edward Hall, his fourth book is 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World (2023). His second collection of poetry, Rapture's Road, will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2024. He lives in Dublin, where he teaches at Trinity College.