Fallen is Audrey Molloy’s third poetry collection, published in October 2025 by The Gallery Press and due to be launched in Dublin and Wexford in early November. The Australian/New Zealand edition is published by Pitt Street Poetry.

Audrey Molloy was born in Dublin and grew up in Blackwater, a village in County Wexford, Ireland. She has lived in Sydney since 1998. Her debut collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021) received the Anne Elder Award for a first collection of poetry and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize.

Her second collection, The Blue Cocktail  (The Gallery Press ) was one of The Irish Times Best New Poetry Books of 2023. The Australian/New Zealand edition is available from Pitt Street Poetry.

Audrey’s chapbook, Satyress, was published by Southword Editions in 2020. Ordinary Time, a collaboration with Australian poet Anthony Lawrence, was published by Pitt Street Poetry in 2022.

Drawing on a range of influences from multimedia culture to science and medicine, her poetry explores aspects of modern femininity, motherhood, transformation and impermanence. Her second collection, The Blue Cocktail, engages more directly with the natural world of her adopted country, and explores ideas of ‘home’ in the context of the Irish diaspora.

Audrey’s poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Southword, Banshee, The Moth, The Irish Times, The London Magazine, Poetry London, The North, Magma, Stand, Mslexia, The Weekend Australian, Best of Australian  Poems, Australian Book Review, Island and Meanjin. 

Audrey’s work has been recognised through the Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She was shortlisted for the 2022 Red Room Poetry Fellowship and was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2020. Her work has received, or been shortlisted for, several other awards. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Manchester Writing School (Manchester Metropolitan University). In a parallel life she is an optometrist.

Audrey is co-editor of The Marrow, a journal of international poetry, which she founded with Daragh Byrne and Natalie Bühler in 2024.

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