Brendan Casey is an Irish/Australian writer. He has an honours degree in Russian and Classical Civilisation from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin. He was awarded a mentorship with Declan Meade of The Stinging Fly Magazine/Press and residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and The River Mill Writers’ Retreat. He is a recipient of an Artlinks Emerging Artist Award and an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary. His poetry explores the intersection between visual art and language and has been published in The Stinging Fly. His novel in progress was longlisted for the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Award and will be published by John Murray Originals in 2023. He lives in Inistioge.