Ailbhe Darcy

Ailbhe Darcy (born 1981) is an Irish poet and Wales Book of the Year award laureate.

Career
Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin. In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. Darcy now lives in Cardiff. She won the Wales Book of the Year award and the Pigott Poetry Prize at the 2019 Listowel Writers' Week with her collection Insistence, which was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Now Award.

Darcy is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.