Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is a poet, pacifist and fabulist. She is the author of Auguries of a Minor God (2021) and Stay Winter (forthcoming 2026), both published by Faber & Faber. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Butler Literary Award, and chosen as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, National Poetry Day Recommendation, Shakespeare & Co. Year of Reading Selection, and a Book of the Year by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent.
Nidhi is a member of the Expert Advisory Committee to Culture Ireland and the board of the Dublin Book Festival. In 2023, she was appointed the Rooney Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and as guest editor of the national poetry journal Poetry Ireland Review. In 2024, she was selected as the Literature Ireland Artist-in-Residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, and the Commissioned Writer at Temple Bar Art Gallery + Studios in Dublin. In 2025, she was awarded the Heaney-Miłosz Residency in Kraków. She has served as a member of the jury for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award and the 2026 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.
“In her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the skin. Auguries of a Minor God is a startling gesture in the face of a threatening world, and one that feels, in Wallace Steven’s words, “like / a new / knowledge of reality”.” — Guardian
“Heralding the arrival of an assured and compassionate new voice. One feels, reading Eipe’s collection . . . a shift in poetry, a cracking open of new possibilities.” — Irish Times
“Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is an ardent soul. Her work is youthful and wise, signalling a profound interest in destruction, stillness, healing, joy.” — Anne Enright
“Dazzling, incantatory future poetry.” — Jeet Thayil
