Robert Breen

Robert Breen was born in Boston and graduated from the University of Massachusetts.  After a decades-long career as a Boston firefighter, he retired, and began writing.  He is the author of a collection of poems, The Shore Digger (firepoet.com) and a memoir, The Poet and the Apprentice,a manuscript that is currently under review.  He is scheduled to speak about his memoir and poetry at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Ireland, in September.  He lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Karen.