| Annemarie Ní Churreáin | |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Language: | Irish |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Dublin |
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is an Irish poet from North West Donegal.
Ní Churreáin grew up in Donegal in a place called Cnoc Na Naomh.[1]
She was educated at the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin. Ní Churreáin is fluent in Irish.[2]
Ní Churreáin has received literary awards from Jack Kerouac House,[3] Akademie Schloss Solitude,[4] and Hawthornden Castle.
In 2016, Ní Churreáin was honoured with the Next Generation Artists Award from Michael D. Higgins on behalf of the Arts Council of Ireland.[5] In 2018, she was awarded the inaugural John Broderick Residency Award by the Arts Council.[6] In 2019, she was named one of two Writers in Residence at Maynooth University, Kildare.
In addition to her writing practice, Ní Churreáin is a panelist on the Writers in Irish Prisons Scheme and co-founder of the arts collective, "Upstart."[7] In 2007, she established Ireland's first creative arts therapies outreach programme for people in need.
Ní Churreáin's first poetry collection Bloodroot[8] was published by Doire Press[9] in October 2017. In 2018 it was shortlisted for the Shine Strong Award in Ireland and for the Julie Suk Award.[10] Her second book Town is a special edition letter-press book published by The Salvage Press 2018.[11]
Ní Churreáin's second full length poetry collection The Poison Glen was published by The Gallery Press, 2021.