PAT BORAN was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin. Prior to taking over the press in 2005, he published four collections of poetry with Dedalus: The Unwound Clock (1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems (first published by Salt Publishing in 2005) is reissued, with minor revisions, by Dedalus in November 2007. Pat Boran's translations from the French of Jean Orizet and the Catalan of Alex Susanna also appeared from Dedalus. In addition he has published a collection of short stories, Strange Bedfellows (1991) and a short fiction title for children, All the Way from China (1999) which was shortlisted for the Bisto Book of the Year Award. His non-fiction include the writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (1999), reissued in a revised and expanded edition Spring2005 (New Island)). A regular reviewer of new poetry and fiction titles in a number of Irish national newspapers and journals, he also presents The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 (see the streaming audio archive at the RTÉ website) and is a regular contributor to other programmes. In 2007 Pat Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána. He is the 2008 recipient of the O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award of the University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN.

"A writer of great tenderness and lyricism"
- Agenda

"Amongst the most tantalising poetry being written in Ireland"
- Fortnight