Doireann Ní Ghríofa, born in Galway, Ireland, in 1981, is a bilingual essayist and poet who writes in English and Irish. She is the author of six collections of poetry that, in her own words, explore themes such as “birth, death, desire and the domestic”. Her poetic work has earned her awards such as the Seamus Heaney Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Fellowship, as well as the Ostana Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among others.