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Tom French was born in Kilkenny in 1966 and raised in Tipperary. He graduated from National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Limerick, and received bursaries in literature from An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council, Ireland in 1999 and 2009. His work was awarded the inaugural Ted McNulty Prize and his first collection Touching the Bones (Gallery Press, 2001) was awarded the Forward Prize for First Collection 2002. His second collection The Fire Step was published in October 2009. The poems which make up his previous Smithereens Press publication The Night Ahead were collected in Midnightstown, his latest book, which was published in 2014. He lives with his family close to the coast of County Meath where he earns his living in the County library service. http://smithereenspress.com [email protected]