{"id":1135,"date":"2024-11-26T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1135"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:52:56","slug":"sinead-morrissey","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/sinead-morrissey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed her PhD in 2003. Her poem \u2018Through the Square Window\u2019 won the National Poetry Competition in 2007. Her six poetry collections are\u00a0<em>There Was Fire in Vancouver<\/em>\u00a0(1996),\u00a0<em>Between Here and There<\/em>\u00a0(2002),\u00a0<em>The State of the Prisons<\/em>\u00a0(2005),\u00a0<em>Through the Square Window<\/em> (2009), the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning <em>Parallax<\/em> (2013) and the Forward Best Collection Prize-winning <em>On Balance<\/em> (2017), all of which are published by Carcanet Press. She has lived in Germany, Japan and New Zealand and lectured in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen\u2019s University, Belfast. She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Florian Braakman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed her PhD in 2003. Her poem \u2018Through the Square Window\u2019 won the National Poetry Competition in 2007. Her six poetry collections are\u00a0There Was Fire in Vancouver\u00a0(1996),\u00a0Between Here and There\u00a0(2002),\u00a0The State of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9434,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1135","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}