Sinead Morrissey

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Sinead Morrissey (born 1972) is a poet from Northern Ireland.

Born in Belfast, 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. Morrissey has a distinctive enrapt style of delivery. She learns her poems by heart and presents them with a crystal sharp vocal intensity that has the power to astonish an audience.

In November 2007, Sinead Morrissey was a recipient of a prestigious Lannan Foundation fellowship for "distinctive literary merit and for demonstrating potential for continued outstanding work", and in 2008 won first prize in the British National Poetry Competition.