Kerrie O' Brien is writer from Dublin. Her debut collection Illuminate was published by Salmon Poetry in 2016 and was funded by a literature bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She has won multiple awards for her work and has featured in The Irish Times, Sunday Miscellany, Hennessy New Irish Writing and Cyphers among others. She was shortlisted for the Penny Dreadful Novella Prize and is currently writing her first novel.