Noel Duffy was born in Dublin in 1971 and studied Experimental Physics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a Foundation Scholar in 1990 and graduated with a first in 1992. After a brief period in research he turned his hand to writing and later co-edited (with Theo Dorgan) the anthology Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999). He was the winner in 2003 of the START Chapbook Prize for Poetry for his collection, The Silence After and more recently the Firewords Poetry Award. He has also been a recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary for Literature. A play, The Rainstorm, was produced for the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2006. His work has appeared widely in Ireland (including Poetry Ireland Review, Film Ireland and The Dublin Review) as well as in the UK, the US, Belgium and South Africa. His poetry has also been broadcast on RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany.
Noel holds an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and has taught creative writing there as well as at the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin, and scriptwriting at the Dublin Business School, Film & Media Department. He remains in Dublin.
