Trudie Gorman is a writer, activist and youth worker based in Dublin. Her debut poetry collection Trust the Damage was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2023. In 2022 she was awarded a residency with Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris and in 2023 she was a Dublin Fringe Festival Artist in Residence. Trudie was selected for Poetry Ireland Versify Series in 2019 and was also shortlisted for the Creative Future Writing Award 2019. Her writing has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Poetry NI, Two Metre Review, Unapologetic Magazine, and The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. 

Praise for Trudie Gorman’s work:

“In this startling collection Trudie Gorman dares the reader to look at the sicknesses that riddle society, the ones we refuse to acknowledge These are poems of violence and tenderness, or love and fear, of fury and survival” – Alice Kinsella

“Original. arresting and brave, Trudie Gorman’s debut collection, Trust the Damage, is a deft and uncompromising exploration of chronic illness, trauma, urbanity, class an how these elements combine to profoundly impact the relationship with self. Gorman’s is an urgent, fresh and essential new voice in Irish poetry.” – Victoria Kennefick 

“(Trust the damage) is a balm and a battle cry.” – Aimee Godfrey, for the Poetry Ireland Review