Fióna Bolger is a poet and creative facilitator. She has worked in Ireland, India and the US with new and more experienced writers, focusing on those from minority, multilingual, or non-mainstream backgrounds, offering spaces to experiment and build confidence and community. Her facilitation and creative practice focus on plurilingualism, using all the words in your head. Her practice is rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and residencies from Salmon Poetry, Co. Clare. She has published in India, Ireland and the US. Her collection, Reconstituting Myself , will launch in June, 2025 from Moonstone Press, Philadelphia. She has co-edited, with Raine Geoghegan, KIN: An anthology of Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Writers (Salmon Poetry, 2024). She co-facilitates Dubylon, with Rafael Mendes, and has co-edited both Dubylon, the book and broadsheet. (https://www.ilsschool.org/dubylon.html). Dubeloving, the latest Dubylon anthology is forthcoming in September 2025. 

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More information about Fióna's practice is available from file:///Users/fionabolger/Downloads/ELOPE_v21_no2_Stepien-1.pdf