William Keohane is a writer from Limerick, Ireland. His essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, and British GQ Magazine, among others. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Queering the Green, an anthology of post-2000 queer Irish poetry, and RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany programme. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing, received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and was one of ten poets selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. Boxing Day, a poetry performance, toured internationally in 2023 and was nominated for an award at the Dublin Fringe Festival. William holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Limerick. He is currently a PhD candidate in poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University Belfast, funded through a Northern Bridge Scholarship from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council.