Seán Hewitt was born in 1990 and read English at the University of Cambridge. He is a fiction reviewer for the Irish Times and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2016, the Resurgence Prize in 2017 and an Eric Gregory Award in 2019.
Books in order of publication:
| Lantern | 2019 |
| Tongues of Fire | 2020 |
| Buile Suibhne / Seán Hewitt, wood engravings by Amy Jeffs (Rochdale, England: Fine Press Poetry) | 2021 |
| 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World, with Luke Edward Hall (Penguin) | 2023 |
| Rapture’s Road (Jonathan Cape) | 2024 |
| Critical studies J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism (Oxford University Press) | 2021 |
| Memoirs All Down Darkness Wide (Jonathan Cape (UK) and Penguin Press (USA)) | 2022 |
| Novels Open, Heaven (Penguin Books) | 2025 |
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