Annemarie Ní Churreáin


Annemarie Ní Churreáin is an Irish poet from North West Donegal.

Career

Ní Churreáin grew up in Donegal in a place called Cnoc Na Naomh.
She was educated at the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin. Ní Churreáin is fluent in Irish.
Ní Churreáin has received literary awards from Jack Kerouac House, Akademie Schloss Solitude, 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. In 2018, she was awarded the inaugural John Broderick Residency Award by the Arts Council. 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.” In 2007, she established Ireland's first creative arts therapies outreach programme for people in need.