Greg Delanty, was born in Cork City, Ireland, in 1958 and lived in Cork until 1986. He has received many awards, most recently a Guggenheim for poetry. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is out from the Oxford Poet's series of Carcanet Press. His poems are widely anthologized including the recent Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, The Norton Introduction to Poetry. He is a US and Irish Citizen and teaches at Saint Michael's College, Vermont.