Peter Sirr was born in Waterford in 1960 and now lives in Dublin where, until 2003, he was Director of the Irish Writers' Centre. He works as a freelance writer, editor and translator and is currently editor of Poetry Ireland Review.

The Gallery Press has published Marginal Zones (1984), Talk, Talk (1987) Ways of Falling (1991), The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange (1995), Bring Everything (2000). His new collection Nonetheless and his Selected Poems 1982-2004 were published in 2004.