Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944, and studied in Ireland, London and New York. She taught at Trinity College and University College Dublin, Bowdoin College and the University of Iowa. She was a professor and the director of the creative writing programme at Stanford University, California. She was the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lived in Stanford, California and Dubin, Ireland. She passed away in April 2020.
