About Grace

Grace Wilentz was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village. A graduate of Harvard University, with postgraduate degrees from Oxford University and University College Dublin, she moved to Ireland in 2005 to study the Irish language and became an Irish citizen in 2015.

 

Her first collection, The Limit of Light, was published by The Gallery Press in October 2020 and went on to be named a book of the year in The Irish Independent and The Irish Times.

 

She has received support from The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon including a Literature Bursary and a Next Generation Award. Her most recent collection, Harmony (Unfinished), was published by The Gallery Press in October 2024. She is the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Notre Dame in Dublin.​