Caitriona O'Reilly

Caitríona O'Reilly (born in Dublin in 1973) is an Irish poet and critic.

==Life O'Reilly took B.A.] and [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D. degrees in Archaeology and English at Trinity College, Dublin. She has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge.

She is the co-author (with David Wheatley) of a chapbook, Three-Legged Dog (Wild Honey Press, 2002); her second collection, The Sea Cabinet, followed in 2006. Her poetry can also be found in The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol.1. She is a widely published critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre; she has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan and in 2008 was named editor of Poetry Ireland Review. She has worked as 'Poet in Residence' at Wake Forest University and now lives in Lincoln.

Recognition
O'Reilly was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her poetry collection, The Nowhere Birds (2001, Bloodaxe);

The Sea Cabinet (2006) was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007.

Poetry

 * The Nowhere Birds. Bloodaxe, 2001.
 * Three-Legged Dog (chapbook; with David Wheatley). Wild Honey Press, 2002.
 * The Sea Cabinet. 2006.