Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and went to school in Bangor, Northern Ireland. She has worked for the BBC in Belfast and for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She is the author of one previous novel, Hannie Bennet's Winter Marriage, and four books of poetry, A Furious Place, Cry for the Hot Belly, The Sky Didn't Fall and The Silence Came Close. She lives in County Kilkenny with her husband, Sean.
