Vona Groarke
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Vona Groarke was born and raised in Ireland. She publishes in the United States with Wake Forest University Press and in Ireland with The Gallery Press. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including X (2014) and Juniper Street (2006). The current editor of Poetry Ireland Review, she teaches poetry at the University of Manchester.