Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer. She has published three books: her first collection, Bar Talk, appeared in 1999; her second, Trapping a Ghost, was published in 2005; a verse novel, In Sight of Home, was published in 2009. A third collection, Her Father’s Daughter, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.