Living in County Galway, Nuala Ní Chonchúir's first stand-alone poetry collection (bilingual), Tattoo:Tatú, was published in September 2007 Her second fiction collection, To the World of Men, Welcome, was published in 2005, both by Arlen House. She has won the inaugural Jonathan Swift Award (2007), the Cúirt New Writing Prize, RTÉ Radio's Francis MacManus Award and the Cecil Day Lewis Award, all for fiction. Also in 2007, she wrote a collaborative play, 'Departure', with three other writers, for Turtle Shell Productions in New York.