Leeanne Quinn was born in Drogheda and grew up there and in Monasterboice, Co. Louth. Her debut collection of poetry, Before You, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012.
Leeanne Quinn was born in Drogheda and grew up there and in Monasterboice, Co. Louth. Her debut collection of poetry, Before You, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012 and highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. Her second collection, Some Lives, was published in 2020 and noted as a Book of the Year by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. She is the recipient of three Arts Council Bursary awards, most recently in 2021. Her poems have been widely anthologised, appearing in The Forward Book of Poetry 2013, Windharp: Poems of Ireland Since 1916, Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative Anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry, and Queering The Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. She lives in Vienna, Austria.
