Poetry prize for alumna Maya Popa

The prestigious Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize has been won by Maya Popa, alumna of our Master's in Creative Writing, for her poem 'Hummingbird'.

She receives a first prize of 1,000 euros and publication in Southword Literary Journal. She will be flown to Ireland to take part in the Cork Spring Literary Festival.

Maya completed the Master's in Creative Writing in 2013 under a Clarendon Scholarship. In addition to the O'Donoghue Prize she is the 2013 winner of the Oxford Poetry Society Martin Starkie Prize.

Previously she took a Master in Fine Art from NYU, where she worked with veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan under a Veterans fellowship.

Her poems and criticism appear in The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, FIELD, Colorado Review, Southword, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She hopes to return to Oxford in the future to continue her research on 19th-century devotional poetry.

To learn more about Maya and to read some of her published poems and articles, please visit: www.mayacpopa.com

For more information about the Gregory O'Donoghue Prize, please see: www.munsterlit.ie/gregod_winners.html

Published 29 January 2014