Alvy Carragher

Alvy Carragher grew up by the River Shannon in Galway and Tipperary and has since lived in Louisiana, Dublin, South Korea, and Canada. She is currently based in Dublin. Her previous collections, Falling in love with broken things (2016) and The men I keep under my bed (2021), were published by Salmon Poetry. She has also published a children’s novel, The Cantankerous Molly Darling (2019). What Remains the Same, her first collection with The Gallery Press, was published in 2024. She is a recipient of an Arts Council Literary Bursary and has an MA in Writing from the University of Galway. She was awarded Poetry Ireland’s Eavan Boland Award in 2025 and, in 2026, the David Whyte Poet in Residence Award. Her poem ‘Neither of Us Asks the Other’s Name’ from her forthcoming collection, The Only Fear I’ve Ever Had is Standing Still (October 2026), won the Listowel Writers’ Week’s Single Poem Award.