Majella Kelly is from Tuam, a small town in the West of Ireland. She is a multi-award-winning poet whose poetry has been widely published and anthologised. Her debut pamphlet ‘Hush’ was published in 2020 by Ignition Press and ten of her poems were published by Carcanet in the Brotherton Prize Anthology at the University of Leeds. In 2019 she won the Strokestown International Poetry Competition. In 2018 she won the Ambit Poetry Prize, came second in the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted by The Irish Times for a Hennessy Literary Award. In 2017 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. In 2016 she came third in the Resurgence Eco Poetry Prize (now the Ginkgo Prize). She has been shortlisted for the Rialto Pamphlet Competition and the Listowel Poetry Collection Award. Her work has also been published in such places as The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Ambit, The Well Review, Cyphers, Crannóg, The Rialto, Best New British & Irish Poets 2017, Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Annual and elsewhere. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from St Anne’s College at the University of Oxford.