Ronan Kelly

Ronan was born in Cork, Ireland and read for a BA in Literature and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He returned to formal study a decade later, in the form of an (online) MA programme in Children’s and YA Literature with Roehampton. He is in the process of completing a PhD in literature & Creative Practice at The University of Winchester. 

Ronan specialises in prose and has varied experience as an arts journalist, editor, researcher and writer of fiction. He has lived and worked in Spain, Vietnam, China, and (currently) the UK and he explores dynamics of place, relationships, culture in his short stories. Cultural intersections and encounter are central to his latest, longer project - a novel featuring representations of outsider figures and liminal experiences and informed by research into contemporary Chinese literature in translation.