She has previously been commended in The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Regarding her poem Migraine, Eira is also a migraine sufferer and felt that poetry as a medium and said she was "best able to express the abstract hallucinations which form part of the way she views the world". Eira was also commended for a poem inspired by examining a sketch of a womb by Leonardo Da Vinci which sparked her interest in the perception of the body and how the idea of birth changed throughout the years.