Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland. His poetry collections are Prophesying the Past (Salmon, 2010), The Stern Wave (Salmon, 2013), Sons (Salmon, 2015), and Alternative Beginnings: Early Poems (Kite Modern Poetry Series, 2022). He ran Doghouse Books, an Irish poetry press, from 2003 until 2013 and was poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal (Limerick Writers' Centre) in 2012/13. His short story collection, The Key Signature & Other Stories, was published by Liberties Press in 2017. He has been awarded the 2024 Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and is 2023/24 Writer-in-Residence at St. Brendan's College, Killarney. His website is www.noelking.ie