Eileen Sheehan
Eileen Sheehan is from Scartaglin, County Kerry; now living in Killarney. Her first collection, Song of the Midnight Fox (DOGHOUSE) was published in 2004. Winner of the inaugural Writers' Week Listowel, Poetry Slam, 2004 and the Brendan Kennelly Poetry Award 2006. She is on the Poetry Ireland Éigse Éireann Writers in Schools Scheme and is currently employed by County Kerry VEC teaching Creative Writing at Killarney Technical College. She was a founder and co-ordinator of the Bricín Winter Arts Festival, Killarney.
Major anthology publications include The Open Door Book of Poetry (Ed Niall MacMonagle), Winter Blessings by Patricia Scanlon, Out Shared Japan (Ed Irene De Angelis & Joseph Woods) and The Echoing Years (Ed John Ennis, Randall Maggs & Stephanie McKenzie). In April 2008 she read at The National American Conference for Irish Studies at St Ambrose University, Iowa, USA.