Sinead Morrissey
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Sinead Morrissey was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took BA and PhD degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1990. She has published three collections of poetry, all with Carcanet Press: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2001), and The State of the Prisons (2005), the last two of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. After periods living in Japan and New Zealand she now lives in Belfast, where she has been writer-in-residence at Queen's University, Belfast and currently lectures.
