Julie Morrissy

Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. Her recent projects place increasing emphasis on collaboration, and her practice engages mixed-media, including animation, moving image and performance. She is the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin, where she also teaches creative writing. Her debut collection Where, the Mile End (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK), and her pamphlet I Am Where (Eyewear 2015) was shortlisted in the 2016 Saboteur Awards. She is a recipient of the Next Generation Award from the Arts Council. Morrissy has represented Ireland at O, Miami Festival and Toronto International Festival of Authors, and has given readings at PoetryFest NYC, Book Week Scotland, Dublin Book Festival, and International Literature Festival Dublin. She completed her PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University, and holds separate degrees in Literature and Law. Morrissy hosts a sporadic reading series called Pizza, Poetry, Pub, and she is co-founder of X-ile Project, a grassroots organisation that campaigned to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution.