Autor/-in: Sinead Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey. was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, from which she took her PhD in 2003. Her five collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver. (1996), Between Here and There. (2002), The State of the Prisons. (2005), Through the Square Window. (2009) and the T S Eliot Prize-winning Parallax. (2013) all of which are published by Carcanet Press. She has lived in Germany, Japan and New Zealand and was a lecturer in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast. She is Belfast's inaugural Poet Laureate.