Sinéad Morrissey is a poet. Morrissey has published six collections of poetry. Her first was "There Was Fire in Vancouver," which was published in 1996. Her fifth collection, "Parallax," won the 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize, and her sixth collection, "On Balance," won the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry. Morrissey received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Trinity College Dublin.