Chris Agee
Chris Agee was born in 1956 in San Francisco and grew up in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. Since 1979 he has lived in Ireland.
His poetry collections include In the New Hampshire Woods (The Dedalus Press, 1992); and First Light (The Dedalus Press, 2003).
A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry (Chicago), and Metre, he also edited Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia (Bloodaxe Books, 1998, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation); and Unfinished Ireland: Essays on Hubert Butler (Irish Pages, 2003).
He teaches at The Open University in Ireland and edits Irish Pages, a journal of contemporary writing based at The Linen Hall Library, Belfast. In the spring of 2003, he was an International Writing Fellow at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
He lives in Belfast.
