Junction City

EAMONN WALL poetry collections include Dyckman-200th Street (1994), The Crosses (2000), Sailing Lake Mareotis (2011), and Junction City: New and Selected Poems (2015), all published by Salmon Poetry. In addition to poetry, Eamonn Wall has contributed essays and reviews to newspapers and journals including the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Irish Times, Reading Ireland, the Irish Literary Supplement, Berfrois and other publications. His prose books are From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish, winner of the Durkan Award from the American Conference of Irish Studies; Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions; and From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America. He edited two volumes of James Liddy’s essays for Arlen House and co-edited Coleridge and Contemplation for Poetica (Japan). Eamonn Wall is a past-president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and from 2014-19 served as a vice-president of Irish American Writers and Artists Inc., an organization founded to encourage Irish Americans to get involved in the arts. He was chosen as the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2014. For 2023, he has been selected as a fellow in non-fiction by the Writers’ Institute of the City University of New York-Graduate Center. A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Eamonn Wall has lived in St. Louis for the past two decades. He works at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, teaching English and directing community outreach to the Irish American community and study abroad for UMSL Global, the university’s international studies unit.