Mary O’Donoghue

Mary O’Donoghue grew up in County Clare; she now lives in Alabama. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Irish Times, Stinging Fly, Dublin Review and elsewhere.

Mary O’Donoghue on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Mary O’Donoghue | Notes on Craft

Mary O’Donoghue

In this new series, we give authors a space to discuss the way they write – from technique and style to inspirations that inform their craft.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

First Sentence: Mary O’Donoghue

Mary O’Donoghue

‘It’s the small stuff – and here I mean the odd particulate matter of daily life – that lets me access the sprawl of a place that wasn’t mine but has incrementally become so.’