Description
Lauren McNamara is a poet, playwright, and essayist from Doon in Limerick, Ireland. She has a PhD and M.A in English Literature from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. She has been published widely (Poetry Ireland, Routledge, Revival Press, and many more), has featured on television and national radio, and at festivals such as Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, and Indiependence.
She is a two-time All-Ireland Slam runner-up and two-time Munster slam champion and former Yeat’s Tower Slam Champion. She has won several other awards and residencies including being a former Dromineer and Nenagh Literary Festival writer in residence. She has performed her plays Quarter Life Crisis 2018 (Galway Fringe Spoken Word Award) and Hello My Name is Single 2019 (Limerick Fringe Spirit of the Fringe Award) partially or fully in several cities around the world. She co runs the First Wednesday Series poetry event at the White House Bar in Limerick. She has delivered poetry workshops in schools and universities. In 2019, she gave a guest performance at Columbia University in New York City where she also spent time studying.