Róisín Ní Neachtain (b. 1983, Switzerland) is an artist and writer. Her first independently published collection of poetry is forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books. Her writing has placed and been shortlisted in a number of competitions and she was awarded the Dennis O’Driscoll Literary Bursary Award for Established Writers in 2025. Róisín is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and the Irish Writers Centre. She is also the founder of Orphic Press where she co-edited The Orphic Review (2018-2025). Róisín did partial studies in law and political science at Trinity College Dublin before being awarded a first class honours in her Masters in Creative Writing at UCD and was awarded Publishing Ireland’s inaugural Breakthrough Award in 2024. In 2025-2026, she will be pursuing further studies at the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. 

She is currently working on her next poetry collection, a novella and a picture-book.

Photography by Ger Holland