Jessica Traynor is the author of Liffey Swim (2014), The Quick (2019), Pit Lullabies (2022) and, most recently, New Arcana (2025). Awards include the 2024 Tundish Award from Field Day for contribution to the arts in Ireland and the 2023 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. She was the 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence at Galway University, and is a Creative Fellow of UCD. She is poetry editor at Banshee Press

By Jessica Traynor