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About Irene

Irene is a nonprofit professional, writer, and improvisor living in Salt Lake City. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Research with Transart Institute/Liverpool John Moores University via a low-residency doctoral program. Her studies focus on developing a feminist theory of humor from embodied practice in taking ourselves less seriously. 

Irene has lived abroad in Canberra, Australia, and Vienna, Austria. Hailing originally from the Midwest, she has also lived for over 13 years in New Mexico and calls the Intermountain West home these days.

She has written over a dozen plays, countless poems, and plenty of creative nonfiction. She finds that the feeling space of metaphor is where her voice comes out most clearly, where the dream image becomes more real than the mundane. Since 2016, she has been practicing improvisation and applied improv in everyday life. Her first poetry chapbook, I’VE NAMED THE GODDAMNED RAVENS, was published by Common Meter Press in July 2023. She is excited for what is next!