About the Author

Ruth O'Callaghan has five collections of poetry, holds the prestigious Hawthornden Fellowship has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the T.S Eliot Award and was awarded a gold medal for her poetry at the XXX World Congress of Poets in Taiwan. Her work is much anthologised and translated into many languages including Italian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Mongolian, Hungarian and Romanian. In America she has completed two successful TV, radio and reading tours where her audiences ranged from approximately one thousand to a farm where the buffalo outnumbered the poets.