She moved to England in 2002 and by 2012 she was awarded her PhD from Newcastle University with a thesis on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky.
[1][2][3] In 2014 she was also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society.
[4] Her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize[5] and the Poetry Now Award.
[6] Bergin is now part-time lecturing in Creative Writing (Poetry) in Newcastle University.
[7][8] In 2019 she was a contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019).