Morrissey, Sinead

Sinead Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of five poetry collections: "There Was Fire in Vancouver", "Between Here and There", "The State of the Prisons", "Through the Square Window", and "Parallax". She has been the recipient of the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize, the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and first place in the 2007 UK National Poetry Competition. She teaches creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast.