Aidan Rooney was born in Monaghan in 1965 and educated at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Since 1988 he has taught French and English at Thayer Academy in Massachusetts. His work has been recognized by awards and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic; in 1997 he received the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Cognac New Irish Writing Award for Poetry. He lives with his family in Hingham, Massachusetts.