Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, Nuala NI Dhomhnaill was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and was educated at University College Cork. Her collections of poetry include An Dealg Droighin, Fear Suaithinseach, Rogha Danta/Selected Poems, Pharaoh's Daughter, Feis, The Astrakhan Cloak, Spionain is Roiseanna, In the Heart of Europe: Poems for Bosnia, Cead Aighnis, and The Fifty Minute Mermaid. Her Selected Essays were published in 2005. Nuala NI Dhomhnaill lives in Dublin, is a member of Aosdana, and was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2001-4.