Anne Walsh Donnelly

Anne Walsh Donnelly lives in Mayo in the west of Ireland. She is the author of The Woman With An Owl Tattoo, a poetic memoir of her coming out journey in her fifties and the poetry collection, Odd as F*ck. She has been shortlisted for the Fish International Prize and the Frances MacManus competitions for her fiction and for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and the International Poetry Book Awards for her poetry. Poetry Ireland in conjunction with Mayo Arts Office appointed her as Poet Laureate for the town of Belmullet in Co Mayo in 2021.