Joan McBreen is from Sligo, Ireland. She was awarded an MA from University College, Dublin in 1997. Her anthology The White Page I An Bhileog Bhán — Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets was published by Salmon in 1999 and is in its third reprint. She has given readings and talks in many universities in the USA including Emory, Villanova, de Paul (Chicago), Cleveland, Lenoir Rhyne, N.C., and the University of Missouri - St. Louis. In 2010 she undertook a six week reading tour of Nebraska, Iowa, and Alabama and in 2012 she read at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her most recent US reading was at the 2017 American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS South), University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Books by Joan McBreen:

Other poems on the web by Joan McBreen:
"Wild Woodbine"
"A Walled Garden in Moylough"

Joan McBreen's Website.