Sarah Clancy is a page and performance poet from Galway. Her most recent collection 'The Truth and Other Stories' and was published by Salmon Poetry in 2014. She has two previous collections to her name, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull (Lapwing Press, Belfast, 2011) and Thanks for Nothing, Hippies. (Salmon Poetry, 2012).

She has been placed or shortlisted in several of Ireland’s most prestigious written poetry competitions including The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, The Listowel Collection of Poetry Prize and The Patrick Kavanagh Award. Her work has been anthologised in ‘Windharp: Poems from Ireland since 1916’ Edited by Niall Mc Monagle and in ‘Even the Daybreak 35 years of Salmon Poetry’ Edited by Jessie Lendennie’ and included in Poetry Ireland Review’s Rising Generation issue. Her work has been published in the United States, Canada and the UK, and in translation in Poland, Slovenia, Mexico and Italy. 

In performance poetry she won the Cúirt International Festival of Literature Grand Slam Championships in 2011, she was runner up in the North Beach Nights Grand Slam Final in both 2012 and 2013 and was runner up in the All-Ireland Grand Slam Championships in 2013. In 2015 she won the Bogman’s Cannon Irish People’s Poet award. 

She is on twitter @sarahmaintains and her books can be ordered here.

Photo credit: Caroline Kelly Stanley