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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 The London Magazine, Tolka, 3:AM Magazine, gorse, The Stinging Fly, Room Magazine, The Real Story UK, and The Dalhousie Review.
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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.
As a Research Fellow with TrinityHaus (Trinity College Dublin) for the last decade, she has been involved in various health and design research projects, including dementia friendly dwellings and hospitals, and has significant experience in participatory design and stakeholder engagement. She also has extensive experience in nature-based solutions, having been a WP lead in Connecting Nature, and involved in NBSEduWorld, and Urban Greening Plans Plus (2024-2026). She is also an artist and has published two poetry collections. She is an Executive Editor of SPROUT, an eco-urban poetry journal, run in partnership with The Nature of Cities. She is a co-founder and Director of EM PATH WAYS, a spin-out of Connecting Nature, not-for-profit social enterprise that uses a range of people-centred co-production and engagement techniques to support sustainable community development and environmental protection.
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.
As a Research Fellow with TrinityHaus (Trinity College Dublin) for the last decade, she has been involved in various health and design research projects, including dementia friendly dwellings and hospitals, and has significant experience in participatory design and stakeholder engagement. She also has extensive experience in nature-based solutions, having been a WP lead in Connecting Nature, and involved in NBSEduWorld, and Urban Greening Plans Plus (2024-2026). She is also an artist and has published two poetry collections. She is an Executive Editor of SPROUT, an eco-urban poetry journal, run in partnership with The Nature of Cities. She is a co-founder and Director of EM PATH WAYS, a spin-out of Connecting Nature, not-for-profit social enterprise that uses a range of people-centred co-production and engagement techniques to support sustainable community development and environmental protection.
Born in Canada, she has lived in Greece, Scotland, Spain, and now resides in Dublin, Ireland.