Simon Costello is 28 and from Offaly. Poetry has been published in Rattle, The North, The Stinging Fly, And Other Poems. In 2017 he was the winner & editor’s choice for US poetry magazine Rattle (Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge) and in 2018 short-listed for the 2018 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition. He is a mentee student under poet Mary-Jane Holmes and a first year on the MFA program at Manchester Metropolitan University.
