BIOGRAPY
David McLoghlin is a prize-winning poet and an exciting creative writing facilitator in memoir and poetry whose writing has been broadcast on WYNC’s Radiolab, appeared in film and published in journals of note on both sides of the Atlantic such as Poetry Foundation, Literary Hub, The Stinging Fly, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review and many more. He reviews for Poetry Ireland Review and his three books are Crash Centre (May 2024), shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week, Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (2012), and Santiago Sketches (2017), all with Salmon Poetry. Pamphlets / chapbooks include Suns (Cardboard House Press, 2017) and The Magic Door (Blue Canary Press, Milwaukee, 1993). In 2023 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and was one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis European poetry platform. He won the Open category of the Voices of War International Poetry Competition in 2018 and was a finalist in the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (now The Moth International Poetry Prize). In 2008, he received second prize in The Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and in 2006 received a major Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Literature Bursary.
McLoghlin has featured and taught at festivals like Cork International Poetry Festival, Literatur und Wein (Austria), Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (Connecticut, USA), O’Bheal’s Winter Warmer, West Cork Literary Festival, Listowel Writers’ Week and The Thomas MacDonagh Hedgeschool. He has taught creative writing and literature at University College, Dublin, New York University, The American College, Dublin, Coler Specialty Hospital, and Hunts Point Alliance for Children in the South Bronx, where he was Resident Writer. More recently, he has facilitated creative writing with Munster Literature Centre, Poetry as Commemoration, The Center for Fiction, Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools programme, The Irish Writers Centre and Hudson Valley Writers Center, as well as many other organisations. He holds an MLitt in Spanish literature (first-class honours) from University College, Dublin, and an MFA from New York University’s Creative Writing Program. His poems have been translated into Spanish and German. He lives in Cork with his family.
Recognition
2025: Crash Centre shortlisted for the 2025 Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week
2023: Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship.
2023: Selected as one of two poets to represent Ireland on the Versopolis European poetry platform.
2018: Winner of the Open category of the Voices of War International Poetry Competition.
2016: Finalist in the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (now The Moth International Poetry Prize) for ‘Tom Crean Sings Sean-nós at the Tiller in the Southern Ocean’, judged by Billy Collins.
2014: Winner of the inaugural Good Morning Menagerie Chapbook-in-Translation Prize for Sign Tongue, translations from the work of Chilean Poet, Enrique Winter.
2011: The Howard Nemerov Scholar at the Sewanee Writing Conference.
2010-2012: NYU Goldwater Fellow.
2008: Second Prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Awards for a section of Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (judged by Moya Cannon and Theo Dorgan).
2008: Winner of the English section of the Frances Browne International Poetry Prize for ‘The Session at Inch’.
2007: Kerry County Council Bursary to attend an artist retreat at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig.
2006: Major Literature Bursary from the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon for memoir.
2006: Selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series including two master classes and a public reading.
Published in Journals and Publications like
Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Shop, The Moth magazine, Southword, Cyphers, The Stony Thursday Book, The Sunday Business Post, Howl: New Irish Writing, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review (Ireland); Magma (UK), Estudios Irlandeses (Spain); Literary Hub, Golfer’s Journal, Copper Nickel, New Madrid, Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Éire-Ireland, The Hopkins Review, New Hibernia Review, Spoon River Poetry Review (USA).