Publications include four poetry collections and a prose memoir. "The Oriole & the Ovenbird" (Kelsay Books 2021), focuses on the primal interplay between humans and avian species in our lives and imaginations. "In Praise of Usefulness" (Wind Ridge Books 2014), celebrates the extraordinary in ordinary things. "High Tea at a Low Table: Stories from an irish Childhood" (Wind Ridge Books 2013), combines my recollections of growing up in Ireland with some unexpectedly traumatic events I experienced as a young adult in America. Other poetry collections are "Reliquaries" and "Still Listening" (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2007 and 1999). I live in Burlington, Vermont where I am a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Vermont.