Education

Holistic Dance Teacher’s Training, Holistic Dance Institute, Vienna 2023-2024

PhD Cultural Studies, “Towards a Language of Inquiry: The Gesture of Etho-Poetic Thinking”, ECA, University of Edinburgh
Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council 2016

MSc Cultural Studies, “Speaking Nearby Trinh T. Minh-ha”, LLC, University of Edinburgh 2009

BA English Literature, UCD Dublin 2006

Publications

“Pica Pica”, Skylight 47, March 2024

“The Empty Field Where the Horse Had Stood”, The Storms Journal, February 2023

“Equinox”, Fearless: A collection of Poetry & Art, December 2022

“The Queue for the Public Bathroom”, Howl: New Irish Writing, October 2022

“The Present Perfect”, The Interpreter’s House, September 2022

“A Grá for the Language”, Cassandra Voices, July 2021

“Composition as Explanation”, Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, Melbourne, 2020

“Ode to the Letter”, Cadernos Sesc_Videobrasil 12, São Paulo: Videobrasil, 2017

“Versions on the Volta”, Translation as Method, Kunstlicht Journal for Visual art, Culture &

Architecture, 3.37, Amsterdam: Kunstlicht, 2016

“Encountering Bibliphagus: An Aesthetics of Reading”, The Hague: West publications,

2016

“Conversing ‘Trina Chéile’’, (co-written with Tami Gadir & Irene Noy), in Sellberg, K.,

Wånggren, L. and Aghtan, K., eds., Corporeality and Cultures: Bodies in Movement, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015, 9-20

“X: The Gesture of Essaying”, Flusser Studies 18, 2014

Awards

1st prize Bere Island Poetry Competition, Selected by Enda Wyley, September 2024

Recipient of The National Mentoring Award 2024, supported by Longford Co. Council

Shortlisted for the Martín Crawford Award, Selected by Dawn Watson, June 2024

Recipient of The John Hewitt Summer School Award, July 2024

Cúirt/Over the Edge New Writers' Showcase at Cúirt International Literature Festival, April 2023

Lough Mask Poetry Competition, July 2021