Susanna Galbraith
Susanna Galbraith is a poet from Belfast. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and earned her MA in art history at University of York. She is an editor of Abridged.
Galbraith’s first full-length collection, MORSELS, was published by Macha Press in 2025. Her poems have also appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, New England Review, Berlin Lit, Propel, Banshee, The Honest Ulsterman, and other journals. Her work was selected for the anthology Taking Back the House: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2023. Her poetic influences include Lyn Hejinian, Ocean Vuong, and Mary Ruefle.
Galbraith was Poet-in-Residence of the Belfast Book Festival in 2026. In 2025, she was selected for New Voices: North and shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award. She won the 2021 Red Line Book Festival Poetry Prize. Her writing has been supported by multiple ACNI Support for Individual Artists Programme awards.
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Text: Read poems and writing by Galbraith at Honest UlstermanT
ext: Zoë Brigley interviews Galbraith about her 'poem for an imaginary marriage' at Poetry Wales
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Photo by Matthew Thompson.