Doireann Ní Ghríofa

[6] In 2018, Ní Ghríofa received the Premio Ostana literary award (Italy) [7] and was chosen as a Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow [8] at Queen's University Belfast.

Ní Ghríofa collaborated with the artist Alice Maher on the limited edition book Nine Silences published by Salvage Press in 2018.

[15][16] Ní Ghríofa's poem "Escape: A Chorus in Capes" from her 2021 collection To Star The Dark was deemed Highly Commended by the Forward Prize For Poetry.

The collection’s section titles, “Clasp,” “Cleave,” “Clench,” suggest the muscularity of attachment to the past, place, and the body that drives the poetic impulse.

"[21] Nina McLaughlin of the New York Times has said of A Ghost in the Throat: "[It is] a powerful, bewitching blend of memoir and literary investigation...Ní Ghríofa is deeply attuned to the gaps, silences and mysteries in women's lives, and the book reveals, perhaps above all else, how we absorb what we love - a child, a lover, a poem - and how it changes us from the inside out.