Dr. Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. She was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland in the Decade of Centenaries programme. From 2019–2021 she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin, and she is currently a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Her collaborative, mixed-media poetry practice includes film, animation, moving image, experimental publishing, and live performance.
Her reading will take place in the exhibition Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022.