ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD in Creative Writing (2020) Goldsmiths University, London.
  • MPhil in Creative Writing, (2014) Goldsmiths University, London.
  • Teaching Creativity Module, Irish Centre for Poetry Studies (2013) Mater Dei Institute.
  • Module in Rural Arts, (2009) GMIT, Galway.
  • Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge (Bliain 1) NUI, Galway.
  • MA in Writing, NUI Galway, (2006) NUI, Galway.
  • MA (Research) Psychology, (1996) UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
  • BA (Hons.) Psychology, (1992) UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
  • NCVA Certificate in Visual Education (1987) GMIT, Galway.

 

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Cúl an Tí (2020) I am a member of the Cúl an Tí Collective.
  • Interface Inagh
  • VAI

 

SELECTION OF PUBLISHED WORDS & WHERE TO FIND THEM:

  • Winter 2024, Winter Papers, Short Fiction
  • Jan 2023, Mercurius, Short Fiction
  • July 2022, Mercurius, Short Fiction
  • Jan 2020, The Lonely Crowd (Issue 12) – ‘The Skink’
  • Winter 2020, The Stinging Fly - ‘Pilgrimage, or The Liminal Situation of a Connemara Erratic’
  • Galway Stories (2020, Doire Press) – ‘John’
  • The Dublin Review - ‘Maybe because…’
  • The Doolin Festival Fiction Winner – ‘Sing’ (Judged by Tramp Press)
  • The Stinging Fly - ‘Famine: An Artwork’
  • The Stinging Fly – ‘A Woman of Thirty’
  • Banshee – ‘'She Danced Across the Wastelands'
  • Noir by Noir-West (Arlen House) – ‘A tell-tale, hot milk and other relevant things’
  • Inkroci – ‘Aoife Casby – What Happens In The Hours In Between?’
  • Criterion – ‘The Sack race’
  • Ropes Journal – ‘Xylem & Phloem’
  • The Cork Literary Review – ‘Some of Us Humans Are Beautiful’
  • Divas Anthology (edited by Nuala Ní Chonchúir)
  • Whispers and Shouts – ‘They Took a Monkey and Dog With Them’

 

  • Poetry: Stand Magazine, Poetry Ireland, The sHop, Envoi, Cyphers, The Interpreter's House, Iota, Poetry Salzburg, Orbis, The Sunday Tribune, Crannóg, Windows Artists & Writers Series, Smoke & Skin (a chapbook with Celeste Augé) was published in 2008 by Lapwing.

 

VISUAL ART - A SELECTION OF EXHIBITED WORK

  • ‘God’s Little Cow’ (2020) is a language-based sound and sculptural object installation (for which I was awarded a PhD from Goldsmiths). This project serves as a practical reading experience of multi-modal work necessitated by an understanding of language that demands to be seen inall its materialities.
  • ‘The Kelp Congress’, Lofoten International Arts Festival (2019) I was selected to participate in The Kelp Congress at LIAF where I produced a floor based text map, handmade books and audio installation as a result of artistic research during the Kelp Congress workshops. As a result of my participation I produced a text that has been published (and translated) for the bi-lingual Kelp Publication (2020) (https://2019.liaf.no/en/news/the-kelp-congress/)
  • ‘Feamainn’, Galway, 2019. [Installation based on seaweed, and relationship to potato growing]
  • ‘Unidentified’, A Quintych of paintings, Westival, Westport Arts Festival, Oct. 2018.
  • ‘Hello / Dia Dhuit’, An installation of postcard & sound; image & word; seeing & translation. Traidpicnic Festival Artist, Cúl An Tí, Co. Galway, Jun 2018
  • ‘Word’, A sound and sculptural installation responding to work by poet Geraldine Mitchell, Mind Has Moutains Exhibition, Cúirt International Festival, April 2018.
  • Quintych, Áras Éanna, Inish Oirr, Co. Galway, 2017 (Paintings)
  • ‘Mayo God Help Us!’, Group Exhibition, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo, October 2015. (Marginalis selected for show by Catherine Marshall, former head of Collections at IMMA and Patrick Murphy, director of the RHA)
  • ‘Ealta’ Group Exhibition, Oireachtas Chois Fharraige , Co. Galway, September 2014
  • 'Teibí', Carraroe, Co. Galway, August 2012
  • 'PRESERVATION OF HOME (I AM FROM C_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _', COE 2010, An installation of found object and text, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.
  • 'Detritus: See Shore Sea', Castlebar General Hospital, Co. Mayo
  • 'Craiceann & Waysides', Galway City Museum, with Dan O'Flatharta.
  • 'Detritus: See Shore Sea', The Atrium Gallery, Longford
  • 'Connecting Through Scape', Collaborative Project with artists from Scotland and Ireland. Exhibition for Pléarácá Festival
  • ​'Claiocha & Clocha', Pléaráca Festival, Galway County Library, Carraroe, Co. Galway
  • 'Inscapes & Outscapes', Claremorris Art Gallery, Town Hall, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
  • 'Who I Am' Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
  • Fís, Focail is Feamainn, Document Project, Collaboration with writers and artists, NUI Gallery, Galway.

 

AWARDS / PRIZES

  • Literature Bursary, The Arts Council (2022)
  • Agility Award, The Arts Council (2022)
  • Visual Artists’ Bursary, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, 2020
  • Winner of The Doolin Short Story Prize, 2017
  • Long listed for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Award, 2016
  • Short Listed for the Fish Short Story Prize, 2016
  • Literature Bursary from Galway County Council, 2016
  • Runner-up Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize, 2012
  • Writer-In-Residence, University Archive, University of Westminster, London, 2011/2
  • Artist's Bursary Literature Award from the Irish Arts Council in 2010
  • Long listed for the Fish International Poetry Prize, 2008; Winner of the Edgeworth Poetry
  • Prize 2008; Shortlisted for the Hennessey Literary Award for Emerging Poetry 2008;
  • Shortlisted for the Start Chapbook Poetry Award; Poetry Ireland's Introductions Series 2007;
  • Literature Award from Galway Co. Council 2007; Shortlisted for the Cúirt Festival of
  • Literature New Writing Prize in 2005; Long listed for the Fish Short Story prize in 2004, 2009, 2021