Diarmuid ó Maolalaí is a graduate of English Literature from Trinity College in Dublin and lives there, working as a maintenance dispatcher and poet, though not enough to introduce himself as one in mixed company. His writing has received several Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations, has been featured by RTE and has appeared in such publications as The Stinging Fly, Queens Quarterly, The Phoenix, Paris Lit Up, The North Dakota Quarterly, The Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Ariel Chart and Grub Street, among many others. My work has also been released in three collections; “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016), “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019) and “Noble Rot” (Turas Press, 2022).