Ailbhe Darcy was born and grew up in Dublin and has lived in the US and Germany, before finding a home in Cardiff. Her most recent book, Insistence, her second full-length poetry collection, was published by Bloodaxe and won both Literature Wales’ the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry, and the overall Wales Book of the Year 2019 awards, as well as the Pigott Poetry Prize 2019 – Ireland’s largest poetry prize. She teaches creative writing at Cardiff University.