Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was born in Dublin and raised in London, New York, and Dublin. Her experiences of exile and identity deeply shaped her work. She received her BA from Trinity College Dublin in 1966. Boland authored numerous poetry collections, including A Woman Without a Country and New Collected Poems, and was known for centering women’s lives and Irish history in her verse. Her essays, such as A Journey with Two Maps, explored what it means to be a woman poet. She coedited The Making of a Poem with Mark Strand and taught at Trinity, Bowdoin, and Stanford, where she directed the creative writing program. Boland received many honors, including the Lannan Award and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She died in California in 2020. A posthumous collection, Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays, was published in 2024.