Kerry Hardie has published six full collections of poetry with The Gallery Press (Ireland), her most recent being The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree in 2012. Her Selected Poems was published by the Gallery Press in Ireland and by Bloodaxe in the U.K. She has also published two novels with Little, Brown, A Winter Marriage (2002) and The Bird Woman (2006), and is still trying to finish a third. She has won many prizes.