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DIMITRA XIDOUS is a poet and writer now living and working permanently in Ireland since 2011. In 2019, she was awarded a Markievicz Bursary for (S)worn State(s), a poetry collaboration with Kimberly Campanello and Annemarie Ní Churreáin. She is the author of Keeping Bees (2014, Doire Press) and Μηδέv | Oὐδέν (2020, Doire Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, gorse, The Stinging Fly, Room Magazine, The Real Story UK, and The Dalhousie Review. (M)other, M(other), her collaboration with Irish-based artist and printmaker Ria Czerniak-LeBov is forthcoming from gorse editions.
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BACKGROUND
Dimitra has a Masters in International Health (Queen Margaret University, Scotland), and has a background in public health policy, with a focus on health and human rights. In 2011, she took a year’s leave from her position with the International Affairs Directorate in Health Canada, where she worked as a policy analyst on health and rights (including sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and gender-related health issues) and moved to Dublin, Ireland, to focus on her writing. Over the course of the next two years (a year was not enough, and when it was time to return to Canada, she opted to stay) she worked on the pieces that would become her debut collection Keeping Bees.
Dimitra Xidous is a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin. She has been involved in various health and design research projects, including dementia friendly dwellings, dementia friendly hospitals, and has significant experience in participatory design and stakeholder engagement. She is involved in Connecting Nature, a H2020 project that is bringing cities to life and life to cities through the implementation of nature-based solutions. Her research and artistic interests include the role of art in promoting personhood; body and memory, and body memory (what the body remembers and re-members); and poetry as craft and mechanism for capturing the lived experience.
Born in Canada, she has lived in Greece, Scotland, Spain, and now resides in Dublin, Ireland.
Dimitra has a Masters in International Health (Queen Margaret University, Scotland), and has a background in public health policy, with a focus on health and human rights. In 2011, she took a year’s leave from her position with the International Affairs Directorate in Health Canada, where she worked as a policy analyst on health and rights (including sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and gender-related health issues) and moved to Dublin, Ireland, to focus on her writing. Over the course of the next two years (a year was not enough, and when it was time to return to Canada, she opted to stay) she worked on the pieces that would become her debut collection Keeping Bees.
Dimitra Xidous is a Research Fellow in Trinity College Dublin. She has been involved in various health and design research projects, including dementia friendly dwellings, dementia friendly hospitals, and has significant experience in participatory design and stakeholder engagement. She is involved in Connecting Nature, a H2020 project that is bringing cities to life and life to cities through the implementation of nature-based solutions. Her research and artistic interests include the role of art in promoting personhood; body and memory, and body memory (what the body remembers and re-members); and poetry as craft and mechanism for capturing the lived experience.
Born in Canada, she has lived in Greece, Scotland, Spain, and now resides in Dublin, Ireland.
