Emer Lyons is a lesbian writer from West Cork currently living in Dunedin in the last weeks of a creative/critical PhD on shame in lesbian poetry. Her critical and creative work has been published worldwide in The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Into the Void, The Cardiff Review, and takahē. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport poetry prize, longlisted for the Fish poetry prize, and Munster Literature Centre's Fool for Poetry chapbook competition. Her play The Green was nominated for the 2019 Dunedin Theatre Awards.
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