THE GALLERY PRESS - AUTHORS

His poems, reviews and essays have appeared in many magazines both in Ireland and the US. He has given lectures and workshops in colleges and universities in the US, including courses for the graduate programs in Columbia and NYU. During 2002 he was the Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. Among his grants and prizes in the US are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Leopardi: Selected Poems received the 1997 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Still Life with Waterfall was the recipient of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Poets. His critical essays have been gathered in Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the 20th century.

Eamon Grennan has taught, since 1974, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he recently retired as the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English. He also teaches in the graduate writing programmes of New York University and Columbia University. He divides his time between the US and the west of Ireland.

Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated at UCD, where he studied English and Italian, and Harvard, where he received his PhD in English. The Gallery Press has published Wildly For Days (1983), What Light There Is (1987), As If It Matters (1991), So It Goes (1995), Selected and New Poems (2000) Still Life with Waterfall (2001), The Quick of It (2004) and Out of Breath (2007). Other publications include Leopardi: Selected Poems and Facing the Music, a collection of essays on modern Irish poetry.
His poems, reviews and essays have appeared in many magazines both in Ireland and the US. He has given lectures and workshops in colleges and universities in the US, including courses for the graduate programs in Columbia and NYU. During 2002 he was the Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University. Among his grants and prizes in the US are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Leopardi: Selected Poems received the 1997 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Still Life with Waterfall was the recipient of the 2003 Lenore Marshall Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Poets. His critical essays have been gathered in Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the 20th century. Eamon Grennan has taught, since 1974, at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he recently retired as the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English. He also teaches in the graduate writing programmes of New York University and Columbia University. He divides his time between the US and the west of Ireland.


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