In 2008, David McLoghlin was awarded 2nd prize in the Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and won 1st prize in the English section of the inaugural Frances Brown Multilingual Poetry Competition. Earlier that year, he was selected by Poetry Ireland to participate in their annual Introductions reading series for emerging poets.
In 2006 he was awarded a major Arts Council of Ireland Bursary (grant) for his memoir, The Travelled Child, which describes his family’s emigration to Brussels and Connecticut, USA, during the early 1980s. In April 2007 he received a grant from Kerry County Council that allowed him to spend several weeks at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland’s best-known artists' retreat. His writing has appeared in publications and literary journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Southword, Cyphers, The Stony Thursday Book, Studies, Blue Canary Press, Milwaukee (edited by James Liddy), and The Irish Catholic newspaper.
David holds a first class honours MA (research) on the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda from University College Dublin, and received a Graduate Diploma in Translation Studies (Spanish and French to English) from Dublin City University. He is a member of the Dingle Writers' workshop, and recently mentored the editors of YEWF magazine (the Young Emerging Writers' Forum), a publication edited by, and produced for teenagers.
Born in Dublin, David has lived in Belgium, USA, France and Spain and currently lives in West Kerry, Ireland.