Nina Quigley is a poet and visual/performance artist and is a member of Bbeyond performance art collective and Artlink. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals and has won prizes. She has two poetry collections, Legacy, published by Lapwing Publications in 2001, and Melancholia, published by Three Dancing Oaks Publishing in 2023. She is currently working on her third collection, Working for the Mafia – A Bi-polar Experience. Her poem, “At St Augustine’s,” recently won second place in the Guernsey international poetry competition, judged by Jackie Kay. She regularly reads her work at open mic events.

Her visual artwork consists of paintings and sculpture/installations and has been exhibited in the Saldhana Gallery with Artlink. She began practicing performance art in 2020 via zoom with Bbeyond and, after lockdown, in the Yellow Yard with BBDB. She has long experience in Shamanic practice and meditation and this readily informs all her artwork in voice, word, image and movement. She is a linguist and educator. Before her retirement she worked as a lecturer in modern languages and European Studies and as a librarian. She is active in intercultural work and volunteers teaching English as a foreign language to Syrian refugees and migrants from Eastern Europe. She lives in Donegal in the north-west of Ireland close to the border with Northern Ireland.