Ailbhe Darcy | |
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Born | Ailbhe Darcy 1981 |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | University College Dublin |
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Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.
Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin.[1] In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.[2] Darcy now lives in Cardiff. She won the Wales Book of the Year award[3][4] and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence,[5] which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize[6] and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.[7]
Darcy is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.[8]