Leanne O'Sullivan
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Leanne O'Sullivan is a poet from the Beara Peninsula in Cork, Ireland. She is the author of three collections of poetry.
Writing career
O'Sullivan's first collection of poetry, Waiting for my Clothes (2004), was published by Bloodaxe Books when she was 21 years old. She later published Cailleach: The Hag of Beara (2009) and The Mining Road (2013).{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/leanne-osullivan|title=Leanne O'Sullivan|date=2017-05-11|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2017-05-12}} She has won a range of Ireland's literary awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2010, followed by the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2011. In 2009, she was given the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/O'Sullivan,%20Leanne.html|title=Leanne O'Sullivan|website=www.munsterlit.ie|access-date=2017-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122151336/https://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/O'Sullivan,%20Leanne.html|archive-date=2017-11-22|url-status=dead}}
As an emerging poet, O'Sullivan won the RTÉ Rattlebag Poetry Slam and the Davoren Hanna Award for Young Emerging Irish Poet.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/6816/30/Leanne-OSullivan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220105445/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/6816/30/Leanne-OSullivan|url-status=usurped|archive-date=20 December 2013|title=Leanne O’Sullivan (poet)|website=Poetry International|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}
Personal
O’Sullivan comes from the Beara Peninsula in West Cork. She studied English at University College Cork, from which she received an Alumni Award in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucc.ie/en/cke10/creativewritingleanneosullivan/|title=Leanne O'Sullivan Biography|website=University College Cork|language=en|access-date=2017-05-12}}
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Category:21st-century Irish poets
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Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Alumni of University College Cork
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