Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. From 2021-2022, she was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland . In her role, she created and hosted the Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution podcast series. Her pamphlet of the same title is a collection of poetry, photographs, maps, translation, and research notes showcasing her work from the residency. It was published in July 2022, and digitised in the permanent collection of the National Library of Ireland along with her papers.

In 2023, she published a complete, collaborative Irish translation of the pamphlet titled Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann. Morrissy was concurrently awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities, which she undertook at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame).

From 2019-2021, she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin (UCD). She is the first Law & Poetry Fellow at Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. As a transdisciplinary scholar, she works with academics in the fields of Law, Science, and History. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University, where she was Vice-Chancellor Research Scholar. She also has degrees in Creative Writing (UCD 2013), Literature (Toronto Metropolitan University 2014), and Law (UCD 2006).