Lucy Collins is Associate Professor of Modern Poetry in the UCD School of English, Drama and Film. 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 Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970 and Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement. Her current project is a study of Irish poets during the Free State period, exploring their networks of association with poets and publishers internationally. She is current editor of the Irish University Review and co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository.