Ciaran O'Driscoll
| Date of Birth: | 1 January 1970 |
| Address: | Limerick |
Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Co. Kilkenny and resides in Limerick. His published work encompasses eight books of poetry that include the titles: Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press, 2001) and more recently Surreal Man, a chapbook of 21 poems (Pighog, 2006), and Vecchie Donne di Magione, a dual-language edition of poems in an Italian setting (Volumnia Editrice, 2006). His childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves was published by Liverpool University Press in 2001. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. He was elected to Aosdána in 2007.