Pádraig Ó Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama received a BA (Div) from Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, an MTh from Queens University Belfast, and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.

Ó Tuama is the author of the poetry collections Love Between Men (Copper Canyon Press, 2026); Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; Feed the Beast (Broken Sleep Books, 2022); Sorry for Your Troubles (Canterbury Press, 2013); and Readings from the Book of Exile (Canterbury Press, 2012). He is also the editor of the anthologies 44 Poems on Being with Each Other and Poetry Unbound (W. W. Norton, 2022, 2025) and of the memoir In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015), a book of spiritual reflection. With Glenn Jordan, he coauthored Borders and Belonging (Canterbury Press, 2023) a book of theological reflections on Brexit; and in addition he has published two books of prayers Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (Canterbury Press 2017) and Being Here; Prayers for Curiosity, Love, and Justice (Eerdmans, 2024).

From 2014 to 2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over ten thousand people a year to transform division through human encounters, with focuses on sectarianism, marginalization, public theology, and the legacies of conflict.

A poet, theologian, and conflict mediator, Ó Tuama is a professor at Yale Divinity School. He lives in Connecticut, on the ancestral lands of the Quinnipiac people.