Máighréad Medbh

Máighréad Medbh (born 1959) is an Irish writer and poet.

Life and work Born in 1959 in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Medbh now lives in Dublin. She is known as a performative poet and much of her focus has been on live performance since the 1990s, when she was a pioneer in the Irish performance renascence. She has published eight poetry collections and a mixed genre work, as well as three e-novels. She has won awards, including the Single Poem Prize Listowel Writers’ Week 2016, for 'Easter 2016,' and her verse fantasy, Parvit of Agelast, was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in 2017. She has been awarded a bursary from the Irish Arts Council, and has had several school residencies. She collaborated with writers Deirdre Brennan and Nuala Ní Chonchúir on the volume of poetry, Divas! (2003).