Liz Quirke

Originally from Tralee, Co Kerry, Liz Quirke lives in Spiddal, Co. Galway with her wife and daughters. Quirke’s poetry has appeared in many publications, including New Irish Writing in The Irish Times, Irish Examiner and Eyewear Publishing’s The Bst New British and Irish Poets 2016. She was the winner of the 2017 Listowel Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem Competition, the 2016 Dromineer Literary Festival Flash Fiction Competition, the 2015 Poems for Patience competition and the 2012 Doneraile Literary Festival Edmund Spenser Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize in 2015 and nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award in 2016.

Follow her on Twitter @QuirkeyLiz.