Conor Kelly was born in Dublin and spent his adult life teaching in a school in the Dublin suburbs. He now lives in Western Shore in Nova Scotia from where he manages his twitter (X) site, @poemtoday, dedicated to the short poem. He has had poems printed in Irish, British, American and Mexican magazines. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy New Irish Writers award. At the ceremony one of the judges, Fay Weldon, asked him, “Where are you in these poems?” He is still asking himself that same question.