About
Nell Regan is a poet, non-fiction writer and translator living in Dublin. Her latest collection is Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf (2026), her fourth book with Arlen House who published her debut Preparing for Spring (shortlisted for the Strong First Collection, Glen Dimplex New Writers and Vincent Buckley Awards) and the biography Helena Molony: A Radical Life, 1883 – 1967, an Irish Independent Book of the Year, 2017. A Gap in the Clouds: A New Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu with James Hadley was published by Dedalus Press in 2021.
She has been a Fellow at the International Writing Programme, Iowa, a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and recipient of The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust Fellowship, Arts Council Literature Bursaries and the Basic Artist Income (pilot scheme). Her co-translation of Micheál Mac Liammóir’s Irish language poetry, Bláth agus Taibhse/ Flower and Ghost and her debut children’s book for children, Just Jump are both forthcoming.
Awards
- 2020 Arts Council
- 2016 Patrick & Katherine Kavanagh Fellow
- 2013 Writer in Residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
- 2012 Fulbright Fellowship
- 2011 Writer Fellow at the International Writing Programme, University of Iowa
- 07 Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature
- 2010 Arts Council An Chomhairle Ealaíon Literature Bursary
- in 2011 she was Writer in Residence at the International Writing Programme, Iowa
- She has also been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards, Strong Awards and Patrick Kavanagh Awards.
Bibliography
Poetry
- Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf (Arlen House, 2026)
- A Gap in the Clouds (Dedalus Press, 2021)
- One Still Thing (London, Enitharmon, 2014)
- Bound for Home (Arlen House, 2011)
- Preparing for Spring (Galway, Arlen House, 2007/New York, Syracuse University Press, 2008)
- Underworld (Belfast, Lapwing, 2004)
Non fiction
- Helena Molony: A Radical Life, 1883-1967 (Arlen House, 2017)
- Female Activists, Irish Women and Change, (Woodfield Press, 2001)
- Field Day Anthlogy Vol 4.
