Caitriona O'Reilly is a poet and critic. She graduated with a PhD in American Literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. Her first collection of poetry, The Nowhere Birds, was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2002. In 2003 she held the Harper-Wood Studentship in Literature from St. John's College, Cambridge. Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet, was published in 2006 and shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Prize. She is the current editor of Poetry Ireland Review.