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
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...
, 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, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...
. 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 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 in 2007; ''Geis'' won the
Irish Times Poetry Now Award 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
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1973 births
Living people
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Writers from County Dublin
Irish women poets
Chapbook writers
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin