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About Me
Hi! I'm a writer, singer-songwriter, and dinosaur palaeontologist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. I live in Edmonton, Canada, on Treaty 6 territory. You can read some of my work in The Irish Times, Glass Buffalo, Tesseracts 21, and The North, among other venues. My debut poetry collection, Separation Anxiety, was published by University of Alberta Press in 2022, was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, and won UNESCO’s Bridges of Struga International Poetry Prize in 2023.
Separation Anxiety, Out Now
My debut poetry book explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind. It was the first Irish and North American book to win UNESCO’s Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award, and has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry.
UNESCO Bridges of Struga International Poetry Award Winner 2023
Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry 2023