Liz Quirke lives in Spiddal, Co Galway with her wife and daughters and is a PhD candidate at NUI Galway. Her debut poetry collection “The Biology of Mothering” is forthcoming with Salmon Poetry (April 2018). He work has appeared in several publications, including New Irish Writing, The Irish Examiner, Southword and Crannóg. She has won several competitions, most recently the 2017 Listowel Writers’ Week Originals Short Poem Competition and the 2016 Dromineer Literary Festival Flash Fiction Competion.
