Efacis Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes both prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She is the author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, exploring birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Her latest books are Lies (Dedalus Press, 2018), which draws on a decade of her Irish language poems in translation, Nine Silences (Salvage Press), a collaborative book with acclaimed visual artist Alice Maher, and To Star the Dark (Dedalus Press, 2021). Her essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Paper Visual Art, and Gorse. Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA, 2018), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen's University, 2018), the Ostana Prize (Italy, 2018), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (Trinity College, 2016), among others. Doireann's artistic practice also embraces cross-disciplinary collaborations, fusing literature with film, dance, music, and visual art. She has been invited to perform her work internationally, most recently in Scotland, Paris, Italy, and New Zealand.
Further publications from Doireann include Clasp, Oighear, Dordéan, do Chroí - A Hummingbird, your Heart, and Dúlasair.
Photo credit: Bríd O'Donovan
