Aidan Rooney is a native of Ireland, resident in the U.S. since 1987. He teaches at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts. Awarded the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Poet in 1997, his collections, Day Release (2000) and Tightrope (2007) are published by The Gallery Press. In 2013, he was awarded the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. A new collection, Go There, is forthcoming from MadHat Press in 2019.