Paul Perry
Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972.
His collections are The Drowning of the Saints (The Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon, 2003); and The Orchid Keeper (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2006).
He won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He has been a James Michener Fellow of Creative Writing at The University of Miami, and a C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Poetry at The University of Houston. In 2002, he won the Listowel Prize for Poetry.
He lives in Dublin.