Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey (born 24 April 1972 in Portadown, County Armagh[1]) is a Northern Irish poet.

that delivers this shining exterior … Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees.

[6] She has published six collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2001), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009), and Parallax (2013), the second, third and fourth of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

In November 2007, she received a Lannan Foundation Fellowship for "distinctive literary merit and for demonstrating potential for continued outstanding work".

[2] The chair of the judging panel, Ian Duhig, remarked that the collection was 'politically, historically and personally ambitious, expressed in beautifully turned language, her book is as many-angled and any-angled as its title suggests.