Writer Dublin, Ireland Curriculum vitae
Elizabeth Oxley
Poet and novelist. Author of After April Rain (Longship Press, 2021) and doctoral candidate in Literary Practice at Trinity College Dublin, at work on a second novel. Poems and prose in print and on radio.
Education
2025–PhD in Literary Practice, Trinity College DublinIn progress
2022MPhil in Creative Writing, Trinity College Dublin
Publications
Book
2021After April RainPoetry chapbookLongship Press, San Rafael
Journals and anthologies
2026Heroines, Volume 5‘My Aunt Posts Food Pictures on Instagram’
2025Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023–2025‘A Prayer for the Electric’New Island, Dublin
2024The Waxed Lemon, Issue 8‘Train Stories’
2023The Banyan Review, Issue 16‘Maiden Voyage’‘Daily Practice’‘Creek Shoes’‘Grandmother’s Camels’‘Heaven’‘Transplanting’‘Paris Picnic’‘Rules for the Execution of My Funeral Party’
2023The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022‘Country Dinners’‘Old Medicine’
2020The Banyan Review, Issue 2‘The Ant Queen’s Children’‘Pacifist’‘Shy Wife’
2020Crosswinds, Volume V‘Impeachment’
2020Poetry Illuminated‘Driving West, I Eat Swedish Fish’Mill Valley Public Library, California
2019Frontier Poetry‘After April Rain’‘Expelling Venus’
2019Motherscope‘Underwater Photography’
2018Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, Issue 10+‘Revolutions’
2016The Poetry Review, Volume 106:1‘Biracial’
2016Peregrine, Volume XXX‘Women’
2014Ruminate, Issue 33‘Alpaca’
Radio
Sunday Miscellany, RTÉ Radio 1
2025‘A Change in the Weather’
2024‘Flying Lessons’
2024‘A Prayer for the Electric’
2024‘Sexy Salsa’
2023‘Poem for My Local Chipper’
2023‘The Sounds of Home’
Honours and awards
2026Fish Publishing Poetry PrizeLonglisted
2026Heroines Women’s Writing PrizeShortlisted
2025The Bridport Prize for PoetryShortlisted
2025Bath Children’s Novel AwardTop 100
2024The Bridport Prize for PoetryShortlisted
2023The Bridport Prize for PoetryShortlisted
2023Montreal International Poetry Prize 2022Finalist
2022Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award
2019Frontier Poetry Industry PrizeFirst Place
2019Philip Levine Prize for PoetrySemifinalist
2018Frontier Poetry OPEN CompetitionSecond Place
2018Book of Kells Creative CompetitionMerit Award for Poetry
2018Janet B. McCabe Poetry PrizeFinalist
2018Brittany Noakes Poetry AwardFinalist
2015National Poetry CompetitionThird Place
2014Janet B. McCabe Poetry PrizeFinalist