Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

Her writing is published in Winter Papers, The Rialto, Arc Poetry Magazine, The London Magazine, Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, and elsewhere.

She is currently working on a series of new poems commissioned by Grangegorman Histories, documenting the lives and experiences of patients and staff at the former psychiatric hospital.

In 2023 she was selected for Gap Days, the Abbey Theatre Writers’ Workshop with Martyna Majok, a Gate Theatre Masterclass with Clean Break, and the Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme.

In previous years she has been selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions and writers’ residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Faberlull, and Cill Rialaig. She is the recipient of two Literature Bursaries and an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Her poetry is included in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive and has been shortlisted for the London Magazine Poetry Prize and Bridport Prize. Her poem ‘Nine Months, at 34’ won the 2023 Arc Poem of the Year Readers’ Choice Award. ‘Soap’ features in the Ink & Imagination exhibition at the Museum of Literature Ireland.

Her play Fluff had a sell out run at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022.

She teaches creative writing at University College Dublin and the Irish Writers Centre, is a professional member at the IWC and a studio member at A4 Sounds. She is represented by Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.