Vona Groarke’s ninth poetry collection, Infinity Pool, will be published in May by The Gallery Press. Winner of the Royal Irish Academy’s 2024 Michel Déon Award, she is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Vona Groarke is the author of fourteen books, including eight poetry collections with Gallery Books (most recently, Woman of Winter, 2023 – her re-telling of ‘The Lament of the Hag of Beare’; Link: Poet and World, 2021; and Double Negative, 2019). Her Selected Poems won the 2017 Pigott Prize for Best Irish Poetry Collection. Her ninth collection, Infinity Pool, will be published in May 2025.
A Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library 2018-19, her research there led to Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara, a multi-genre account of the lives of Irish women domestic servants in late nineteenth century New York, (New York University Press, 2022). Hereafter was a Book of the Year in the Irish Times, the Spectator and Sunday Independent, and won the RIA’s 2024 Michel Déon Award. Poet, essayist, reviewer and editor, her work has recently appeared in New York Review of Books, L.A. Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and Poetry Review. She is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.
