Sionnain Buckley is a writer, editor, translator, and visual artist. Her fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, Foglifter, Porter House Review, CutBank, and others, and was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2024. She also occasionally writes essays, like this one at Autostraddle, and poems, like this one at Strange Horizons.
Sionnain holds an MFA in fiction from The Ohio State University, where she developed, as her thesis, a novel and a screenplay as an adapted pair. Previously, she served as an Associate Fiction Editor at The Journal, and an Art and Prose Editor at 3Elements Literary Review. She was a 2024 resident at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, a 2023 resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a 2022 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Resident with the Adirondack Center for Writing, and a 2019 Rhinebeck Resident with The Seventh Wave. She has worked as a curriculum developer in the Edtech sector, coordinated a literacy mentorship program, lived on a farm commune, wrangled chickens at a historic bed and breakfast, and worked as a live-in personal chef. She lives by the ocean on the South Shore of Massachusetts.
Sionnain is represented by Audrey Crooks at Trident Media Group.
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