Padraig O'Morain

Padraig O’Morain’s poetry has been published in anthologies and magazines in Ireland and the UK and broadcast on radio. His work gained a Poetry Business award, sponsored by Arts Council England, in 2007 and the twenty winning poems were published as You’ve Been Great (Smith/Doorstop) the following year. He grew up in Ladytown, County Kildare and comes from a family in which poetry has long been appreciated: his father composed verses in his head while he worked in the fields and his grandfather’s poems are still read at family occasions. He lives in Dublin where he works in journalism and psychology. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. He is married with two daughters.