Leanne O'Sullivan is a poet from the

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, Ireland. She is the author of three collections of poetry.

Writing career

O'Sullivan's first collection of poetry, ''Waiting for my Clothes'' (2004), was published by

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when she was 21 years old. She later published ''Cailleach: The Hag of Beara'' (2009) and ''The Mining Road'' (2013). She has won a range of Ireland's literary awards, including the

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in 2010, followed by the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011. In 2009, she was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award. As an emerging poet, O'Sullivan won the

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Rattlebag Poetry Slam and the Davoren Hanna Award for Young Emerging Irish Poet.

Personal

O’Sullivan comes from the

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. She studied English at

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, from which she received an Alumni Award in 2012.

References

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