Dion O’Reilly, Second Place winner of Narrative’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of three poetry collections: Limerance (Floating Bridge, 2025), Sadness of the Apex Predator, and Ghost Dogs. In addition, her work has been included in several anthologies, including A Constellation of Kisses. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and has spent most of her life on a small farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Oh for Fuck’s Sake, poetry, in Fall 2025
- Time in the Burn Ward and Other Poems, poetry, in Winter 2021
- Fallen, poetry, in Fall 2020