Darby Price is a poet and hybrid writer. Her debut collection, All the Lands We Inherit, was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Pollard International Poetry Prize, administered by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin.

 

Born and raised in Southeast Louisiana, Darby earned her BA (English - Creative Writing) at Florida State University and her MFA at George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her poetry has appeared in No Contact, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Redivider, and Zócalo Public Square, among others, and her reviews and interviews have appeared in The Collagist (now The Rupture) and The Southeast Review. 

 

Darby is a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, where she served as Assistant Course Director for Writing 50 from 2020-2024. She has taught literature, creative writing, and rhetoric to talented youth and college students, and has developed curriculum for PEN America, UC Irvine, and WriteGirl Los Angeles. 

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