Nithy Kasa

Nithy Kasa was one of the ten poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s Poetry as Commemoration project. She features on the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation website, the University of Galway’s Archive, UCD’s special collections and others. She received the Poetry Ireland Commission 2020, with the support of an Arts Council Grant and was shortlisted for The Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award 2021. Her debut collection, Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho (Doire Press 2022) was selected for the Arts Council’s Read Mór programme, listed amongst the top poetry books of 2022 by The Irish Times and was shortlisted for the Listowel Writers’ Week Piggot Poetry Prize. It has also been taught at university courses in Ireland, the UK and the States. How to Make Love to a Colonised Body, Nithy’s second collection, is published  by Doire Press in April 2026.