Is an Irish short story writer and translator who lives in Bucharest. He won the 2006 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He has published over 40 short stories, as well as essays and criticism. His work has appeared in Granta, the Irish Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
In 2010, he edited Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails, an anthology of new short stories by twenty-two Irish and international writers, for The Stinging Fly Press.
He translated Mihail Sebastian's autobiographical novel For Two Thousand Years. It tells the story of the author's early years as a Jew in Romania during the 1920s. It was published in 2016.
