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Gerald Dawe was educated at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including his most recent collection, Points West; a volume of collected criticism, The Proper Word; and a memoir, My Mother-City. He is also the editor of several anthologies of Irish writing, including The Younger Irish Poets. A Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he is senior lecturer in English and director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing. His various awards and honours include the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature, Hawthornden and Ledig-Rowohlt writers' fellowships, and Arts Council of Ireland Literature Awards. He was the John J. Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College and was appointed to the Charles Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University, Philadelphia. He lives in County Dublin. |
