Writing

Poetry

‘Cycling Home’ Flare 23: Readings from the Sunflower Sessions, Summer 2024
‘Balscadden Beach’, Flare 22: Readings from the Sunflower Sessions, Spring 2024
Mapping the Depths of Us, a pamphlet of physics poems created as part of the Institute of Physics Writing Residency, 2023. Read it here.
‘Nightboarder’, I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere, edited by Lucinda Jacobs and Sarah Webb, illustrated by Ashwin Chacko, published by Little Island, 2023.‘
The Knee’, published in The Stinging Fly, Issue 47 Vol.2, 2022. Buy it here.
'Donegal’, published in Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, edited by Leeanne Quinn and Joseph Woods, published by Dedalus Press, 2022. Buy it here.
'Red Berries', published in Bealtaine Magazine Issue 2, 2022. Read here.
'Oscar Square Birthday Party', published in This Is What You Mean To Me: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2021, published by Poetry Ireland, 2021. Buy the e-book here.
'Superglue', 'Ararat', 'Two Countries', 'Stargazing with my Mother', 'Sea', 'Moving on', and 'Cycling without a Face Mask', published in Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry, an anthology by Lifeboat Press, edited by Paul Maddern, 2021. Buy it here.
'Oscar Square Birthday Party' and 'The Cat's of St Catherine's', published in Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds, an anthology by Dedalus Press, 2021. Buy here.
'Ararat’, published in Impossible Archetype Issue 9, 2021. Read here.
'Introduction', 'Cured', 'Emily', and 'Engine of Love', published in Green Carnations, Glas na Gile: 25 Young LGBTQ+ Poets from Ireland, edited by John Ennis and Moxie Lofton, and published by Book Hub Publishing, 2020. Purchase the anthology.
Trumpet Issue 9, edited by me, a literary pamphlet published by Poetry Ireland, 2020. Buy the issue.
'Superglue', published as part of Linenhall Art's Centre's A Fine Line... series, 2020. Read here.
'Sea', published the Honest Ulsterman, 2020. Read here.
'The City is a Sunday', published on Pendemic.ie, 2020. Read here.
'Brexit Blues', 'The 10.35 from Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly', 'Plane/Train', 'The Train to Dún Laoghaire', and ''You City You Boyfriend', included in Writing Home: the 'New Irish' Poets, edited by Pat Boran and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, published by Dedalus Press, 2019. Purchase the anthology.
'Yours', published on Journal.ie, 2015. Read here.

Commissioned Work

'Tennis Elbow', 2024: commissioned by Rucha Benare for a MusexMachina Biomechanics Art Exhibition
'Confluence of Echoes', 2024: co-created with Melissa Lara Clissold, commissioned by OpenAI Dublin.
'The Waking Walls', 2023: commissioned by AlanJames Burns to write a caoineadh for ecological and climate grief from the point of view of Cloughoughter Castle.
'July at F27', 2022: a poem commissioned by ESB to launch their new building on Fitzwilliam Square. I was tasked with creating a poem that wove together the sustainable technology, architecture, and landscaping of the building as well as capturing the essence of the people who work there.
'Last, Best Hope', 2022: a poem commissioned by the Climate Change Arts Festival, where I was asked to create a poem about rising sea levels in Limerick.
'This Room', 2022: a poem commissioned by the Business to Arts Awards to capture the work, talent, dedication, and challenges of the arts sector, especially coming out of the pandemic, and encouraging further business support for the arts.

Dedalus Press, Writing Home book launch, 2019. L to R: Shaiyon Merkel, Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe, Lianne O'Hara, Nastaha Remoundou, Bogusia Wardein, Julianna Menezes, Christian Wethered, Nithy Kasa, Sven Kretzschmar, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Pat Boran, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Polina Cosgrave.

Fiction

'Too Soon', flash fiction published in the Bangor Literary Journal #12 and shortlisted in the 40 Words competition, 2020. Read the issue here.
'Fresh sheets', flash fiction published Banshee #10, 2020. Buy the issue.
'First Date', flash fiction published in Visual Verse, 2020. Read here.

Non-Fiction

'Rizz 'em with the 'Tism', Wired Our Own Way: An anthology of autistic Irish voices, ed. Niamh Garvey, New Island, 2025
'The Ghost in the Machine’, The Irish Writers Handbook 2024, Books Ireland, 2003.
'5 Days in August', published in This Is What You Mean To Me: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2021, published by Poetry Ireland, 2021. Buy the e-book here.
'Being Seen', an interview with illustrator Dapo Adeola, Inis issue 63, published by Childrens Books Ireland, 2021. Read here.
'Kala Pani' an essay about a compound of words by Fióna Bolger, included in Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative Anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry, edited by Míchaél McCann, Summer Meline, Marcella L.A. Prince, Nidhi Nak/Aria Eipe, and Frank Ormsby, published by UCD Press, 2020. Purchase the anthology.
Various reviews in Childrens Books Ireland's Inis Magazine, 2020 onwards.
'Alone, in the Dark, with You', an essay published on Pendemic.ie, 2020. Read here.
'Dublin Postcard', an essay published in Poetry Ireland Review 131, 2020. Buy the issue.
'The Arts as an Anchor', an article written for Dedalus Press, 2020. Read here.
'A Story to Tell: One Creative Journey', an essay published on the Creative Generation blog, 2019. Read here.
Various articles written for LeCool Dublin, 2012.
'Toys Are Us', an article published in Gender Across Borders 2012.

Reading

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