Gréagóir Ó Dúill was born in Dublin, raised in County Antrim, educated in Belfast, Dublin and Maynooth where he took his PhD. He was recently Lecturer in Contemporary Writing in Irish at Queen's University, Belfast and currently lectures in Creative Writing in the Poets' House at Waterford Institute of Technology. Much published in Irish, he is more recently concentrating on work in English and has been widely published in the journals in Ireland, Britain and the United States. He lives in Dublin and in the Donegal Gaeltacht.