Mairéad Byrne
Mairéad Byrne, born in Dublin, is an Irish poet who immigrated to the United States in 1994.[1] Byrne earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature from University College Dublin in 1977.She was awarded a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College Dublin in 1994, before earning a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing (in 1996) and a Ph.D. in Theory & Cultural Studies (in 2001), both from Purdue University.In the Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century British and Irish Women's Poetry (2011), Lee Jenkins situates Byrne's poetics "in the global circuitry of diaspora, migration, and the information superhighway," identifying as a significant accomplishment that "she refuses to choose between formal innovation and radical theme," fusing commitments to both social justice and linguistic innovation.She was a freelance journalist in Ireland (1978-1986), writing features and reviews for all major magazines and daily newspapers, including In Dublin magazine, the Irish Times, and Raidió Teilifís Éireann; and The Village Voice and Provincetown Advocate in the United States (1987-1988).