Praise for Distance (Picaro Press, 2014):"With its beer-drenched Blundstones, cricket balls retrieved from neighbour's backyards, misbehaving pastor's kids and crabs plucked from the Moyne river, O'Reilly's poetry collects and curates a series of vernacular objects and experiences that comprise life in Australia and beyond. From the streets of Ballarat to the dry highways of West Texas, from the floor of a petrol station in rural NSW to the evening sky seen from a Scottish beach, this poetry traverses continents, testing spaces and locations and finding them brimming with their own types of desire. Using a light touch and an elegant voice, Distance traces out nostalgia's peculiar contours and emotional resonances, resulting in remarkable poetic moments that will return and whisper again to a reader even after the book is set down." - Lachlan Brown, author of Limited Cities "Joseph Brodsky, the Russian Nobel laureate, once remarked that memory and art have in common the 'ability to select, a taste for detail.' In the work of Nathanael O'Reilly, memory and art come together to bring us poems that remember what cannot---what must not---be forgotten, in rich and telling detail and with a taste for quiet but incisive irony." - Paul Kane, author of A Slant of Light, Work Life and Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity"Nathanael O'Reilly's poems sound the major themes of Australian poetry: landscape, displacement, yearning, and above all a critique of cultural narrowness. O'Reilly's plain-spoken diction is often laced with understated wit, but is given ballast by its principled grounding in lived experience." - Nicholas Birns, editor of AntipodesBIOGRAPHY: I am a faculty member in the Department of English at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. I was born and raised in Australia, where I attended Monash University and the University of Ballarat, graduating with a B.A. in 1995. I have lived outside Australia since 1995 and spent extended periods in England, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine and the United States. I completed both my M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature from Western Michigan University. My book, Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel, examines fourteen Australian novels published from 1960 to the present. I co-edited (with Jean-Francois Vernay) a special issue of Antipodes entitled Fear in Australian Literature and Film, published in June 2009. My edited collection of essays, Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature, was published in August 2010 by Cambria Press and is available both in hardcover and as an eBook. With Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, I co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, entitled Millenial Postcolonial Australia (December 2011). I am the co-editor, with Lyn McCredden, of Tim Winton: Critical Essays, which will be published by University of Western Australia Publishing in August 2014. I am the author of a full-length collection of poetry, Distance (Picaro Press, 2014), and two poetry chapbooks, Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010) and Suburban Exile: American Poems (Picaro Press, 2011), and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Emerging Writers Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. My poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia, Canada, India, England and the United States, including Antipodes, Cordite Poetry Review, Postcolonial Text, Transnational Literature, Prosopisia, Blackmail Press, Southern Ocean Review, Mascara Literary Review, LiNQ, Harvest, Windmills, Snorkel, Social Alternatives, PRISM, Tincture, Red River Review and Page Seventeen.