Seán Hewitt is a poet and academic. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, the Resurgence Prize in 2017, and a Northern Writers' Award in 2016. His debut collection of poems Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape, 2020) won The Laurel Prize, 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.

He is also a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. His book, J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism, is published with Oxford University Press in 2021.

His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape in the UK and Penguin Press in the USA in 2022. 

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