Jenny Mitchell

Jenny Mitchell has three poetry collections: the debut Her Lost Language was joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; Map of a Plantation won the Poetry Book Awards and is a university set text; Resurrection of a Black Man contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on Poetry Unbound. She’s won numerous competitions, including the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize and the Southword Subscriber’s Prize, and was the inaugural Poet-in-the-Community for Cork City Libraries in 2025.

She’s a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star and a facilitator for the Irish Writer’s Centre. She edited the poetry anthology Everyone Started Singing for Cork City Libraries in 2026, when she also received an Author’s Foundation Grant from the Society of Authors, and an Arthur Welton Award for her collection-in-progress.