Ciara Healy is a Writer, Book Artist, Curator and Head of Fine Art & Education at Limerick School of Art & Design, Technological University of the Shannon. She is the 2021 recipient of a Scottish/Irish Bilateral Network Award from the Royal Irish Academy, an IMPACT Research Award from University of Reading (2016), a Large Grant Award from Arts Council Wales for a curatorial research project titled Thin Place (2015) and she was one of the 2011 recipients of the Wales Arts International and Axis Critical Writing Award.