Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. She is the current Writer-in-Residence at The Complex Arts Centre Dublin x Mirror Lamp Press. 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, along with her papers. In 2023, she published a collaborative Irish translation of the pamphlet titled Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann. Morrissy was concurrently awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities (University of Notre Dame). From 2019-2021, she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin. In 2024, she was the first Law & Poetry Fellow at Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. As a transdisciplinary scholar, she works with academics in the fields of Law, Science, and History. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Ulster University, and separate degrees in Literature and Law.

Morrissy’s poetry-artworks have been exhibited at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and acquired for the Ireland State Art Collection. Her first collection Where, the Mile End (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). Her awards include the MAKE Theatre Residency Award, the ‘Next Generation’ Artist Award and Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She was a contributing participant in playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2022. She hosts a sporadic reading series in her home called Pizza Poetry Pub, which has featured international and local writers Dionne Irving, sam sax, Erin Robinsong, Ronan Kelly, and Eamon McGuinness. She is a regular a critic for Poetry Ireland Review and Books Ireland Magazine.
 
Inquiries to morrissyjt@gmail.com