Ciarán O'Rourke's second collection Phantom Gang was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2023. His first collection The Buried Breath was highly commended by the Forward Foundation in 2019. He is a previous winner of the Cúirt New Irish Writing Award, the Fish Poetry Prize, and the Westport Poetry Prize, among others. He lives in Dublin, where he works freelance as a reviewer and teacher. His third collection is forthcoming from The Irish Pages Press.