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Vona Groarke has published fifteen books, including nine collections of poetry with the Gallery Press, most recently Infinity Pool, shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize.
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara – a poetic account of Irish women domestic servants in 1890s New York, which arose out of her time as a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018-19, won the 2024 Michel Déon Award.
Her Selected Poems was awarded the 2017 Piggott Prize for Best Irish Poetry Collection. Recent poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), The Poetry Review, New York Review of Books, and the TLS.
2017 recipient of the Irish Literary Hall of Fame Award, she is a member of Aosdána, (Irish Academy of the Arts), and of the U.K.’s Royal Society of Literature.
Former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and poetry critic for the Irish Times, she is Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge (2022-26), and has recently been inaugurated as Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-28).
Picture attribution:
courtesy of St John's College
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