Annemarie Ní Churreáin

          

         BLOODROOT NEW MEXICO POETRY READING & WORKSHOP TOUR FEBRUARY 2019

“The poems in Bloodroot, with their musicality and sensuousness, as well as their fearlessness, mark the welcome appearance of a fresh and vivid new voice”. Catriona O’ Reilly, The Irish Times (2018) 

NÍ CHURREÁIN is a poet from northwest Donegal. Her debut collection Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award for best first collection in Ireland and for the 2018 Julie Suk Award in the U.S.A. She is the author of a suite of poems about Dublin titled Town (The Salvage Press, 2018).
 
In 2016 Ní Churreáin was the recipient of a Next Generation Artist Award by the President Michael D. Higgins on behalf of the Arts Council. She was the 2017-18 County Kerry Writer In Residence and the recipient of the inaugural 2018 John Broderick Residency Award. Ní Churreáin is the 2019 Commissioned Writer at Templebar Gallery and Studios Dublin, Ireland.

Ní Churreáin has been awarded literary fellowships from Akademie Schloss Solitude Germany, Jack Kerouac House Orlando and Hawthornden Castle Scotland. Her poetry is taught as part of the Writing Program at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her work is included in special library collections worldwide including those at Stanford University, Arizona State University, Texas A&M University and Princeton University.
 
Ní Churreáin’s books have been reviewed widely in Ireland and abroad. The Yale Review surmised that “Ní Churreáin often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image.” The Los Angeles Review of Books stated “That Ní Churreáin can condense the prototypical life of a young Irish woman into half a page while sustaining the poem’s impact is testament to her ability as a storyteller, the vividness of her language, and the universality of the portraits she is painting... 
 
Ní Churreáin currently lives in Dublin. She is a member of the Arts Council Writers in Prisons Scheme. She is currently co-composing a libretto for an upcoming opera production. More information is available from www.studiotwentyfive.com

SOCIAL LINKS

AUTHOR FACEBOOK

https://www.facebook.com/anniebugbui

AUTHOR TWITTER

https://twitter.com/NiChurr

AUTHOR INSTAGRAM

https://www.instagram.com/annemarienichurreain/

AUTHORS WEBSITE

www.studiotwentyfive.com

THE IRISH TIMES article about Bloodroot

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/i-was-raised-in-the-shadow-of-men-who-wanted-to-conquer-wildness-1.3268313

RTE POETRY PROGRAMME POEM ‘SISTERS’

https://vimeo.com/287620534