2012 Presenters

Aidan Rooney

Aidan Rooney was born in Monaghan, Ireland in 1965 and educated at Maynooth College, National University of Ireland. Since 1988, he has taught at Thayer Academy and lived in Hingham, Massachusetts. A past winner of the Guinness Literary Award and the NY Yeats Society Competition, he was awarded the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poet in 1997. His collections, Day Release (2000) and Tightrope (2007) are published by The Gallery Press in Ireland. Widely published in Europe and North America, his work has appeared in various anthologies--Staying Alive (Bloodaxe) and 180 More (Random House) among these--and new  poems have appeared recently in The Rialto, Horizon Review, Salamander, Mudlark, The Recorder, Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, and The Shop. A new collection, Histoires, is pending.