Jane Clarke was born in 1961 and grew up on a farm in Co. Roscommon. Since 1996 she has lived with her wife in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow, where she combines writing with her work as a creative writing tutor and group facilitator. Her first collection The River, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015, was the first poetry title to be shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. In 2016 she won the Hennessy Literary Award for Emerging Poetry and the inaugural Listowel Writers' Week Poem of the Year Award. Her second book-length collection, When the Tree Falls (Bloodaxe Books, 2019), was shortlisted for the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2020. A Change in the Air (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2023 for nature and ecopoetry, and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 and Ireland's Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2024.