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 the Decade of Centenaries program. Morrissy was also the 2021-22 National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she worked on a poetry-play. From 2019-2021 she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin. She is currently based at Maynooth University.  Her collaborative, mixed-media poetry practice includes film, animation, moving image, experimental publishing, gallery installation, and live performance. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University, where she was Vice-Chancellor Research Scholar. She holds graduate degrees in Creative Writing (University College Dublin 2013) and Literature (Toronto Metropolitan University 2014), and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree (University College Dublin 2006).