Amy O Connor

Amy O Connor was born in Tipperary, Ireland. She spent much of her early twenties travelling the world to experience different cultures and has lived in both Barcelona, Spain and Toronto, Canada.

Amy has an unyielding passion for evoking emotion through poetry and is committed to showing others just how cathartic and profound poetry can be. In 2019, Amy published her debut poetry anthology, A Beautiful Complexity, which received much media attention both locally and nationally. Amy also runs a successful Instagram poetry account @aocpoetry, where she loves to showcase her work and engage with her thousands of followers.

She studied journalism at the University of Limerick and now works in communications. Amy lives in Cork, Ireland, where you will be sure to find her perusing the poetry section of her local bookstore.