Simon Costello is a writer from Tullamore, Co. Offaly. His poetry and essays have been published/forthcoming in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, bath magg, New England Review, The London Magazine, The North, The Moth, Magma, The Rialto, The Irish Times and RTÉ.

He has been awarded first prize in The Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry (2024), Southword Editor’s Poetry Award (2023), The Rialto Nature & Place Poetry Prize (2021). In 2021, he was highly commended in The Moth Poetry Prize.

In 2024, his poetry chapbook Saturn Devouring was published by The Lifeboat Press.

He is currently a Government of Ireland IRC Scholar and PhD candidate. He teaches at the Mary Lavin Centre/School of English in University College Dublin and also works for Granta magazine.

He lives in Dublin.