Julie Morrisy, Poet

Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, and critic. She is a 2025-26 Fulbright awardee. From 2021-2022, she was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland. In her role, she created and hosted the Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution podcast series. Her eponymous pamphlet is a collection of poetry, photographs, maps, translation, and research notes showcasing her work from the residency. Published in 2022, it is digitised in the permanent collection of the National Library of Ireland, where her papers are archived. In 2023, she published a collaborative Irish translation of the pamphlet titled Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann. In 2021, Morrissy was concurrently awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities (US). From 2019-2021, she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Ulster University, and separate degrees in Literature and Law. Her poems are published in Poetry Ireland Review (IE), Cyphers (IE), The Irish Times (IE), Magma Poetry (UK), Rose Books Hotline (US) and elsewhere. She is also an exhibiting artist.