The Center for Irish Studies and College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas announced Jessica Traynor as the recipient of the 27th Lawrence O?Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. Jessica Traynor was born in Dublin in 1984. She is a poet, essayist and librettist, and she is currently the 2023 Arts Council writer-in-residence at Galway University. Her debut collection, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press, 2014), was critically acclaimed as one of the best poetry debuts of the year. The Quick, Traynor?s second collection, was a 2019 Irish Times poetry choice. Her most recent book, Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and also an Irish Times poetry books of the year choice for 2022. Interview and reading at Celtic Junction Arts Center.