Nick Laird

Born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1975, Nick Laird was educated at Cookstown High School and Cambridge University.  He worked as a lawyer for several years before leaving law to write full-time.  Mr. Laird is the recipient of many prizes for his poetry and fiction, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Ireland Chair of Poetry Award, the Betty Trask Prize, a Somerset Maugham award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

His essays, reviews and poems appear in various publications including The London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The TLS and The Believer.  He writes an occasional column for the Guardian newspaper.  His publications include the poetry collections Go Giants (2012), On Purpose (2007), and To A Fault (2005) and the novels Glover’s Mistake (2009) and Utterly Monkey (2005).