Sheila O'Hagan

Sheila O’Hagan is a Dublin based writer and poet. Sheila O'Hagan began writing poetry in 1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University. She is a teacher of Creative Writing and reviewer, has given a workshop in Wormwood scrubs prison and was Writer-in-residence for County Kildare.

She won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Awardin 1991, the Goldsmith Award for Poetry in 1988, the Hennessey/Sunday Tribune Award for New Irish Poet of the Year in 1992 and the Listowel Writers Week, 1990/1998.