Julie Irigaray
Writer. Teacher. Researcher.
Welcome to my website. As an author who lived in four different countries, I aim to create a better understanding of the world and our place in it — a mission which has cast me in many different roles: writer, teacher and researcher.
I am a Creative Writing Tutor, a PhD Candidate in English Literature and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Huddersfield. You can find out about my publications, experience, research, awards, and more on this website.
What's New
Winter 2022-2023
Next term I am teaching several courses at City Lit: Poetry Workshop: Intensive (10/01/23 - 14/02/23), Writing protest poetry (04/02/23 - 05/02/23), and Writing the prose poem (11/02/23 & 18/02/23).
This December, two of my poems will appear in the A Personal History of Home anthology, a project initiated by Dr Jennifer Wong and supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme (University of Oxford).
Whalers, Witches and Gauchos
My poetry pamphlet Whalers, Witches and Gauchos was published by Nine Pens Press last April.
Whalers, Witches and Gauchos explores narratives of displacement, the way we navigate between countries and cultures, and how where we come from makes us who we are. Using my Basque ancestors as a point of reference – these same whalers, witches and gauchos who travelled to the other side of the world or were persecuted – I conjure up my memories of living in the Basque Country, France, Ireland, Italy and the UK. This pamphlet depicts what it is to migrate between places and languages seeking homes that can both sustain us and allow us to grow.
