Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and grew up in County Down. She
now lives in County Kilkenny with her husband, the writer Seán
Hardie.
Her
poems have won many prizes. The Gallery Press has published A
Furious Place (1996), Cry for the Hot Belly (2000), The Sky Didn't
Fall (2003), The Silence Came Close (2006), Only This Room (2009) and Selected Poems (2011). Her first novel, Hannie Bennet's Winter
Marriage appeared in 2000; another, The Bird Woman was published in 2006. Kerry is a member of Aosdána.
