Grace Wells, a Writer, poet, gardener, re-wilder, mother, yoga teacher. Her debut children’s novel Gyrfalcon (O’Brien Press, 2002), which won the Eilís Dillon Best Newcomer Award and was an International White Ravens Choice.
Her debut poetry collection When God has been Called Away to Greater Things (Dedalus Press, 2010), won the Rupert and Eithne Strong Best First Collection Award, and was shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award.
Her second poetry collection Fur (Dedalus Press, 2015), moved more deeply into eco-poetics. Fur was lauded as ‘a book that enlarges the possibilities of poetry’, and her poem Otter was Highly Commended by the Forward Prize.
She reviews Irish poetry for a wide range of journals, and for the past twenty years has taught and mentored a generation of emerging writers, ceaselessly encouraging creativity and expression.
In 2018 Grace moved to County Clare, which has informed her work with a coastal, marine light. She is currently working on her third collection of poetry, Home, a meditation on belonging within culture, body, self, and nature in our era of ecological crisis. The poems are accompanied by a sequence of eco-poetry-films, Wells’ Home Movies.
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Ruairí McKiernan
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