Molly Twomey

Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford, and graduated in 2019 with an MA in Creative Writing from University College Cork. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and the Farmgate National Poetry Award. Her second collection, Chic to be Sad, appeared in July 2025.

Her work has appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The Irish Times, Mslexia, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. In 2021, she was chosen for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series as well as their International Residency Scheme. An awardee of an Arts Council Literature Bursary (2024), Molly was also the recipient of the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. She lives in Cork.