BIOGRAPY
David McLoghlin is a prize-winning poet and an exciting creative writing facilitator in memoir and poetry whose writing has been broadcast on WYNC’s Radiolab, appeared in film and published in journals of note on both sides of the Atlantic. His three books are Crash Centre (May 2024), Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (2012) and Santiago Sketches (2017), all with Salmon Poetry. In 2023 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and was one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis European poetry platform. He won the Open category of the Voices of War International Poetry Competition in 2018 and was a finalist in the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (now The Moth International Poetry Prize). His translation of Sign Tongue by Chilean poet Enrique Winter won the inaugural Good Morning Menagerie Chapbook-in-Translation Prize in 2014. In 2008, he received second prize in The Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and received a major Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Literature Bursary in 2006.
McLoghlin has taught creative writing and literature at University College, Dublin, New York University, The American College, Dublin, Coler Specialty Hospital, and Hunts Point Alliance for Children in the South Bronx, where he was Resident Writer. Most recently, he has facilitated creative writing with Munster Literature Centre, Poetry as Commemoration, The Center for Fiction, The Irish Writers Centre and Hudson Valley Writers Center, as well as many other organisations. He holds an MLitt in Spanish literature (first-class honours) from University College, Dublin, and an MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in Cork with his family.