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, Ireland.
[1] In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.
[2] She won the 2019 Wales Book of the Year[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 Reader in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.