I am an American writer with family roots in Ireland and the New York area. In the once-traditional fashion of writers, I traveled widely when young and acquired an education and varied experience of life in different countries, working at different jobs (again, respecting tradition): translator, bartender, bookstore clerk, urban planning technician, computer network administrator, editor, teacher, and even freelance writer. I now live in Texas. 

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Killoyle has been published in Italian under the imprint of Edizioni Nutrimenti, Rome.  

Read my memoir Run Like Blazes, available as a Kindle e-book. 

 

"Raise a glass to this Laurence Sterne of our day."                                                                           

                                                                                         Ultimo (Germany)

"Comparisons to James Joyce will come inevitably."                                     

                                                                             The Minnesota Daily                                                  

On this website, you can find descriptions and reviews of my books in English and German, and soon in Italian; some of my essays and reviews; excerpts from my novels; a complete short story; a page of quotations and tales of rejection I find encouraging; and an occasional blog called The Snug.

I have been a regular contributor to Boston Review for 12 years and counting, and my stories and articles have appeared in many other journals and reviews, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Scotsman, Context, and others. Automobile-related miscellany of mine occasionally shows up on the online automotive journal Autosavant. I am on the faculty of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut, as a lecturer in creative writing. 

Comments? If you want to read more of my work, are moved to compliment or criticize, or would like to arrange a reading or panel discussion, you can reach me c/o my agent, Alex Glass, Trident Media Group LLC, 41 Madison Avenue, Floor 36, New York, NY 10010, or at roger_boylan@hotmail.com.

Enjoy the site. Read the books. Drop me a line.

Left, above: Cover of first German edition of Killoyle, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, 1999; right, first English edition, Dalkey Archive Press, 1997. 
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