Artist Biography
Eva Griffin is a poet. Her pamphlets, ‘Fake Hands / Real Flowers’ (2020) and ‘one last spin around the sun’ (limited edition, 2021) were published by Broken Sleep Books.
Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Abridged, Anthropocene, PERVERSE, Icarus and elsewhere, including anthologies published by Lifeboat Press, New Binary Press and Peach Mag. She has been featured on the RTÉ Poetry Programme and the Words Lightly Spoken podcast.
Eva was chosen as a Dublin Book Festival Young Writer Delegate by the Irish Writers Centre in 2019, and in 2020 she was selected as a Poetry Ireland Introductions Series poet by Vona Groarke.
Eva is currently working towards her first full-length collection under mentorship from the poet Afric McGlinchy thanks to the Words Ireland National Mentorship Programme. She will also receive mentorship from poet Rebecca Goss in 2022 thanks to an Arts Council Agility Award.