Eileen Sheehan

is from Scartaglin, now living in Killarney, County Kerry. Her collections are Song of the Midnight Fox and Down the Sunlit Hall (Doghouse Books). Anthology publications include The Poetry of Sex (Ed Sophie Hannah / Penguin / Viking); The Watchful Heart: A New Generation of Irish Poets (Ed Joan McBreen / Salmon Poetry); and TEXT: A Transition Year English Reader (Ed Niall MacMonagle / Celtic Press). She has worked as Poet in Residence with Limerick County Council Arts Office and is featured on Poetry International Web’s Irish section. Her third collection, The Narrow Place of Souls, is forthcoming.