Caitríona O'Reilly (born 1973) is an Irish poet and critic.

Life

She earned BA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and English at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, where she was awarded a PhD on American poetry, 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 from

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

. She is the co-author (with David 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 in ''The 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 journal ''Metre''; she has collaborated with artist

Isabel Nolan Isabel Nolan is an Irish contemporary artist who works with sculpture, textile, photographs, and text. Nolan lives and works in Dublin. Work Nolan, according to a review of her work in Frieze Magazine, works similarly to Eva Berendes, Nicho ...

and in 2008 was named editor of ''Poetry 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 the

Irish Times Poetry Now Award The Poetry Now Award is an annual literary prize presented for the best single volume of poetry by an Irish poet. The €5,000 award was first given in 2005 (reduced to €2,500 in 2013) and is presented during annual Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown ...

in 2007; ''Geis'' won the

in 2016.

Works

*''The Nowhere Birds'', Bloodaxe, 2001, *''The Sea Cabinet'', Bloodaxe Books, 2006, *''Geis'', Bloodaxe Books, 2015, ; Wake Forest University Press, 2015,

References

External links

Caitriona O'Reilly at the Scottish Poetry Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oreilly, Caitriona 1973 births Living people Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People from County Dublin Irish women poets Chapbook writers