Abhainn Connolly

A former US representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam and a member of the historic Denver Mercury Cafe Slam Team at the US National Poetry Slam, Abhainn toured the USA as a featured poet in venues in San Francisco, Portland, and New York City.

Their written work can be found in esteemed Irish & UK literary journals like Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit, and Oxford Poetry, as well as US publishers like HAD, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Hole in the Head Review. They were a finalist for the Jack McCarthy Book Prize in 2021 (Write Bloody) and longlisted for the Frontier New Voices Contest 2022. Their debut collection DEADNAME was released by Write Bloody UK in June 2023.