Aifric Mac Aodha
Aifric Mac Aodha’s first poetry collection, Gabháil Syrinx (The Taking of Syrinx), was published by An Sagart in 2010. She has taught in St Petersburg, New York and Canada and has lectured in old and modern Irish at UCD. She has been awarded several bursaries by The Arts Council and, in recent years, she has read at numerous festivals in Europe, America, Canada and India. Her first bilingual collection, Foreign News, with translations by David Wheatley, was published by The Gallery Press in 2017. She lives in Dublin where she works for the Irish-language publisher An Gúm.