Thomas O’Grady was born and grew up on Prince Edward Island (Canada). He is the author of three books of poems, What Really Matters (2000) and Delivering the News (2019), both published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, and Coming Ashore: New & Selected Poems, forthcoming from Arrowsmith Press in May of 2025. After a long and rich teaching career at University of Massachusetts Boston, where he was Director of Irish Studies from 1984 to 2019, he relocated to northern Indiana where he is currently Scholar-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College. He now divides his time between and among the banks of the mighty St. Joe River in South Bend, a converted rumrunner’s bunkhouse in Adamsville, Rhode Island, and the south shore of his beloved PEI.