ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Ireland. Her debut collection Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for best first collection in Ireland and for the 2018 Julie Suk Award in the U.S.A. She is also the author of Town (The Salvage Press, 2018). She is a recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award from the President of Ireland on behalf of the Arts Council of Ireland. Ní Churreáin has received literary fellowships from Jack Kerouac House Orlando, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany and Hawthornden Castle Scotland. She is a 2019 co-recipient of the Markievcz Award Ireland. Ní Churreáin is the 2019-2020 Writer in Residence at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. In 2020, she was commissioned by Solstice Arts to write a long-length poem titled ‘The Foundling Crib’ which can now be read online here