Sean Carlson is working on his first book a family memoir of migration. His essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Boston Globe Magazine, the Irish Times, New England Review, New York Daily News, Oxford Review of Books, and elsewhere. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the Honest Ulsterman, the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing, Trasna, and elsewhere. He has been a regular contributor on arts, music, and literature to Rhode Island’s alternative monthly Motif Magazine.
As an independent editorial and communications consultant, Sean works with various organizations. He managed global communications and public affairs at Google and editorial and special projects at Yahoo. He co-founded TechRaking, a series of technology and journalism summits with the Center for Investigative Reporting, hosted developer festivals in Southeast Asia, and delivered frequent talks and trainings for newsrooms, classrooms, and conferences. He has also run workshops as a program consultant with the International Center for Journalists.
At the age of 15 he founded Just Another Scene as an online resource for independent music across New England. From 2016 to 2020, he served on the board of directors of the nonprofit Irish American Writers & Artists. Sean graduated summa cum laude from Boston University with degrees in political science and in communication. He is the recipient of a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, a Listowel Writers’ Week bursary / Cill Rialaig Arts Centre writing residency, and a Elizabeth Kostova Foundation poetry fellowship.