Ellen Dillon is finishing a PhD on abstraction in contemporary poetry at the School of English in DCU. She has written the pamphlets Potential Space and Sonnets to Malkmus (forthcoming, 2018) and is working on a long poem called Heave. Some of her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Adjacent Pineapple, Banshee, CUMULUS, Paratext, Smithereens and Zarf.