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Colm Keegan is a writer and performance poet from Clondalkin, Dublin. Since 2005, he has been shortlisted  four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both poetry and fiction. He was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition in 2008 and won the All Ireland Poetry Slam in 2010.

In 2011, he was nominated for the Dublin Fringe's 'Little Gem' Award for the play he co-wrote with Stephen James Smith and Kalle Ryan - Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About - which had a sold out run at Dublin Fringe Festival’s recent TurnAround Season, and is currently touring Ireland.

He co-runs the monthly arts event ‘Nighthawks at the Cobalt’ and is co-founder and facilitator ofor the Inklinks Project, a creative writing initiative centred around a young writers’ club in Clondalkin. He also teaches creative writing in secondary schools across Ireland.

He reviews for and contributes material to RTÉ Radio One’s Arena and is currently working on his first novel and a collection of short stories.

 'Sometimes you meet poets with soul, sometimes with experience, sometimes with talent. But you seldom meet a poet with all three. Colm Keegan is one such poet' - Dave Lordan

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