Anna D is a spoken word poet from Dublin. She has won multiple slams and competitions including the All-Ireland Poetry Slam and she has competed and performed her work internationally at the European Poetry Slam in Slovakia and Ideogramma International Poetry Slam in Cyprus. Anna’s work was published in three spoken word poetry anthologies released in the past two years. She won two awards to develop her debut spoken word collection into a multi-media stage show called ‘Roots in Every Room’, which debuted at Dublin Fringe Festival September, 2025 and was nominated for the ‘Radical Spirit’ award.

Anna is a mother, a teacher and a dramatherapist. Her work is violently vulnerable, fragile and fierce and aims to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. She is interested in the politics of emotional life, the female experience, motherhood, relationships, familial and collective trauma and the web of structural oppression that impacts how we relate to each other and the world today.