Nick Laird

Born in County Tyrone in 1975, Nick Laird is a poet, novelist, screenwriter, and former lawyer. His collections are To A Fault, On Purpose, Go Giants and Feel Free. His novels are Utterly Monkey, Glover's Mistake and Modern Gods. His awards include the Betty Trask Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award, the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is on faculty at New York University, and is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast.