Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes both prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. She is the author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, exploring birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Her latest books are Lies (Dedalus Press, 2018), which draws on a decade of her Irish language poems in translation, Nine Silences (Salvage Press), a collaborative book with acclaimed visual artist Alice Maher, and To Star the Dark (Dedalus Press, 2021).