Lucy Collins is an associate professor in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the UCD College of Arts and Humanities. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and at Harvard University, where she spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar, she teaches and researches in the area of modern poetry and poetics. She has published essays and books on modern poetry from Ireland, Britain and America, including Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (Liverpool UP, 2015). She is co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository.