Ellen Dillon is a poet and writer of exploratory prose from Limerick. Her most recent books are Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel (HVTN, 2023) and tentatives (Pamenar Press, 2023). She has also written Butter Intervention (Veer 2, 2022), Morsel May Sleep (Sublunary Editions, 2021), and Sonnets to Malkmus (Sad Press, 2019), as well as the pamphlets Excavate (Poems after Pasolini) (Oystercatcher Press, 2020) and Achatina, achatina! (SoundEye Press, 2019). She received an Individual Arts Bursary from Limerick City and County Council, and the Arts Council Agility Award and Literature Bursary in 2024. Her most recent work of essay, prose poetry and fiction, A Whale Called Milieu, was shortlisted for the inaugural Prototype Prize for writers and artists working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms.