A native of Cork, Ireland, and now an American citizen, Greg Delanty is the author of seven full collections of poetry, including American Wake; The Hellbox; The Blind Stitch; and Collected Poems 1986- 2006. He is a recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Award and is artist in residence of the English department at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont, where he has taught since 1987.
