Rory Gleeson is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter.  

He graduated with a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin, and earned further degrees from Oxford, The University of Manchester, and UEA.  He was the 2019 Burgess Writing Fellow at The University of Manchester, and was a recipient of a Literature Bursary from Arts Council Ireland in 2020.

His debut novel ROCKADOON SHORE was published by John Murray in January 2017. 

His short film PSYCHIC was funded by the Irish Film Board and Sky Arts, and premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018.

His debut play Blood in the Dirt debuted at The New Theatre in November 2019.

His writing has featured in Granta, The Irish Times, Sunday Miscellany and The Dublin Review. His story “The Body Audit” was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2021.

He’s represented in literature by Lucy Luck of C+W, in screen and theatre by Ligeia Marsh of Curtis Brown.