Doireann Ní Ghríofa author biography, plus links to books by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and an essayist. Her first prose work, A Ghost in the Throat, was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; the winner of the Irish Book Awards' Book of the Year, the Foyles Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the James Tait Black Prize; and a nominee for the Rathbones Folio Prize. It was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, The Observer (London), The Irish Times, and The Globe and Mail. Ní Ghríofa is also the author of numerous acclaimed books of poetry. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Ostana Prize, a Seamus Heaney Fellowship, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

This biography was last updated on 09/22/2026.

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