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Caitriona O'Reilly | |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Irish Times Poetry Now Award |
Caitríona O'Reilly (born 1973) is an Irish poet and critic.
She earned BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English atTrinity College, Dublin,[1] where she was awarded a PhD on American poetry,[2] and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection,The Nowhere Birds (2001, Bloodaxe); she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship fromSt John's College, Cambridge. She is the co-author (withDavid Wheatley) of a chapbook,Three-Legged Dog (Wild Honey Press, 2002); her second collection,The Sea Cabinet, followed in 2006. Her poetry can also be found inThe Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol.1.
She is a widely published critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journalMetre; she has collaborated with artistIsabel Nolan and in 2008 was named editor ofPoetry Ireland Review. A third collection,Geis, is published by Bloodaxe and Wake Forest University Press.
She has worked as 'Poet in Residence' at Wake Forest University and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College, London, having been previously an associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She lives in Lincoln.
The Sea Cabinet was shortlisted for theIrish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007;Geis won theIrish Times Poetry Now Award in 2016.[3]
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