David Nash was born in County Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. He completed his MA in Writing in Goldsmiths, University of London in 2010, where he won the Pat Kavanagh award for Best Portfolio, the first poet to do so. Since then he has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Stinging Fly, Modern Queer Poets, The White Review, Propel, and the Dedalus anthology Local Wonders.