Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, critic, and activist. She has spent time living in Canada and the U.S. Her debut poetry pamphlet
I Am Where (Eyewear, 2015) was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the 2016 Saboteur Awards. Also in 2016, she was selected as a “Rising Generation” poet by Vona Groarke, editor of
Poetry Ireland Review. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2015, and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. Her creative and critical work has been published widely in Ireland, the U.K., Canada and the U.S., including in
gorse,
Cyphers,
The Stinging Fly,
Poetry Ireland Review,
ASAP/ Journal, and
White Wall Review.
Where, the Mile End is her first book. Morrissy currently lives in her hometown of Dublin, Ireland.
Photo credit: Siobhán Butler.
How did you first engage with poetry?
We read and wrote poetry in school, both in Irish and English. And my family are interested in poetry—my grandmother kept clippings of poems from the newspaper. I remember writing a lot of poems as a kid.
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