Ellen Dillon is a secondary school French and English teacher in Co. Limerick. She is finishing a PhD on abstraction in contemporary poetry at the School of English in Dublin City University. Her pamphlets Heave (Smithereens) and Sonnets to Malkmus (Sad Press) are forthcoming, and some of her poems have appeared in Adjacent Pineapple, Banshee, CUMULUS, Datableed, Paratext, Smithereens Literary Magazine, and Zarf.