Lani O’Hanlon is a dance/ movement artist and writer living in a renovated cottage beside the sea. She teaches meditative, somatic movement and creative writing with The Arts Office, Waterford City and County and Waterford Healing Arts. Winner of the Poetry Ireland Trocaire Award in 2022 and selected for Poetry Ireland Introductions in 2020, her poetry is widely published and broadcast on RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany. She performs her poetry with Wildsong and with director Fiona Aryan on award-winning poetry films. Other prizes include the Hennessey New Irish Writing, the Dromineer Literary Festival and Poetry on the Lake. Lani received an Agility Award from The Arts Council in 2022 and a Participatory Project Award in 2023.