Alicia Byrne Keane’s work has been published in The Moth, Banshee, Anthropocene, The Stinging Fly (Featured Poet Winter 2021-22), Stand, Acumen, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, and Dedalus Press’s anthology Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, among other publications. Alicia’s writing has been funded by Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland. In May 2023, Alicia was selected for Ireland’s National Mentoring Programme. Writing for the Irish Times, Jessica Traynor described Alicia’s debut collection Pretend Cartoon Strength (Broken Sleep Books, December 2023) as a series of ‘meditations within tightly honed forms’, ‘painterly in their detail’.