Lianne O’Hara is a poet and playwright.

Her play Baby won the 2024 Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award after a successful run at The New Theatre, Dublin. Fluff had a sell out run at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022.

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

She is the recipient of the 2024 Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry. 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.

She was a participant on this year’s Stinging Fly Summer School. She has also been selected for Gap Days, the Abbey Theatre Writers’ Workshop with Martyna Majok, a Gate Theatre Masterclass with Clean Break, the National Mentoring Programme, Poetry Ireland Introductions, and writers’ residencies at the Pavilion Theatre, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Faberlull, and Cill Rialaig. Her work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Lianne is currently writing a series of new poems commissioned by Grangegorman Histories, documenting the lives and experiences of patients and staff at a former psychiatric hospital. She teaches creative writing at University College Dublin and is represented by Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge & White.