Rory Gleeson is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter.  

He sudied Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, earning further degrees from Oxford University, 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 Press 

His short film PSYCHIC was funded by Screen Ireland and Sky Arts. It premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018 and was screened in competition at mutiple international film festivals..

His play BLOOD IN THE DIRT debuted at The New Theatre.

His writing has featured in Granta, The The Tangerine, The London Magazine, 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 and Hannah Young at Curtis Brown.