Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

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Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi
Born
Lagos, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian, Irish

Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi is a Nigerian-Irish poet, writer, editor, and performer.

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Poetry

Enyi-Amadi's poetry has been published in Architecture Ireland, Poetry International, Poetry Ireland Review , The MASI Journal, RTÉ Poetry Programme, Smithereens Press, The Bohemyth, The Irish Times , and in the volume Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories (2020). She received the 2019 Poetry Ireland Access Cúirt Bursary. [1] In 2018, she was a speaker at the Dublin Human Rights Festival alongside Clara Rose Thornton and Farah Elle. [2] She performed as part of the 2019 International Women's Day with Poetry Ireland. [3] She was among the invited performers at the 2019 Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector conference. [4] The Irish Museum of Modern Art commissioned her to write three poems in response to the 2019 exhibition A Fiction Close to Reality. [1]

In 2019, Enyi-Amadi co-edited a volume of poetry with Pat Boran, Writing Home: The New Irish Poets, which featured poems from poets who have emigrated to Ireland. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] She was one of the featured writers and performers for the 2020 Nollaig na mBan celebrations in Epic, the Irish Emigration Museum. [10] She collaborated with poet and singer-songwriter, Christie Kandiwa, on the piece entitled SEE x SEA for the Mother Tongues Festival in February 2020. [11]

Personal life

Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved to Galway, Ireland at age 10. [1] [12] [13] She attended University College Dublin graduating with a BA in English and Philosophy. [1] While at UCD she edited and contributed to Otwo magazine for The University Observer . [14]

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