Originally from Swinford in County Mayo, Martin Dyar is the author of the Pigott Prize-shortlisted poetry collection Maiden Names (Arlen House, 2013) and The Meek (Wake Forest University Press, 2025). He is also the editor of the anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland, 2022). He has been awarded the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, the Strokestown International Poetry Award, and an Irish Arts Council Literature Bursary Award. He teaches in the field of Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin.