Alice Kinsella is a poet and writer from Mayo. Her debut, Milk: on motherhood and madness was published by Picador in 2023 to critical acclaim.  She co-authored Wake of the Whale (Mayo Books Press, 2024) a hybrid docu-poetry nonfiction book on Ireland’s whaling past and present. She is an Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Artist. Her debut full-length poetry collection, The Ethics of Cats, will be published in 2025.  

Dedicated to climate conscious art, Alice co-edited Empty House: poetry and prose on the climate crisis (Doire Press, 2021); she also writes about the mammalian experience and creating through emergency on her substack (mam)mal. 

Alice grew up in Co. Mayo and moved to Dublin to study English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, before returning west where she obtained a Masters in Writing from the University of Galway. 

Her early publications include the poetry pamphlet Sexy Fruit (Broken Sleep, 2018), and Flower Press (onslaught, 2018). She followed these with two creative non-fiction books, before returning to poetry with The Ethics of Cats. 

Her work has been translated into Polish, Arabic, and Greek, and her poetry films have been screened in Australia, Greece, USA, and Iraq. An experienced speaker and guest at literary festivals, she has also received residencies/bursaries from Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Cill Rialaig, Art in the Landscape Festival, among others. 

In 2024 Alice founded Caomhnú Creative, a production collective rooted in climate conscious art, literature, and heritage. Caomhnú Creative was selected for Druid theatre’s FUEL programme 2025. 

Alice is represented by Marianne Gunn O’Connor.