About

Stephen de Búrca is a writer, researcher, and workshop facilitator from Galway, Ireland.

He completed a doctorate, funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council, at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and an MFA at the University of Florida. He was selected for the inaugural Poetry Ireland Gerald Dawe Poetry Bursary (2026), for Poetry Ireland Introductions (2023), and received an Arts Council Agility Award (2023 and 2022). Stephen’s work has featured in Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review, Banshee, Propel Magazine, and elsewhere.

His debut poetry collection, Atlantic Fret, is forthcoming with The Gallery Press in 2026.