KERRI Nĺ DOCHARTAIGH

Kerri is an Irish nature writer and essayist from North West Ireland but now lives in the middle, in an old stone railway cottage; on a ghost line that once connected the South of the island with the North. She read English Literature and Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. Her work has been published in popular place writing blogs and journals and she was shortlisted for the National Memory Day Poetry Prize in 2017. Her debut book, Thin Places, which combines memoir, history, nature writing and political commentary will be published in spring 2021 with Canongate. Her submission for PLACE 2020 combines memoir, poetry and Kerri’s astonishing distinctive prose to describe moments in time, the shift of leaving one place to start a new life in another.