Biography

TESS GALLAGHER is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Dear Ghosts (Graywolf Press, 2006), Moon Crossing Bridge (Graywolf Press, 1992) and My Black Horse (Bloodaxe, 1995). She is presently working on her New and Selected Poems and The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories (Fall 2009). In 2008, Blackstaff Press in Belfast and Eastern Washington University Press in America published Barnacle Soup — Stories from the West of Ireland, a collaboration with the Irish storyteller Josie Gray. Distant Rain (Eastern Washington University Press, 2006), a conversation with the highly respected Buddhist nun, Jacucho Setouchi of Kyoto, is both an art book and a cross-cultural moment. Gallagher is also the author of Amplitude, Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray, A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry (Graywolf Press, 1987) and two collections of short fiction: At the Owl Woman Saloon (Scribner, 1999) and The Lover of Horses and Other Stories (Graywolf Press, 1992). She has also spearheaded the publication of her late husband Raymond Carver’s Beginners in the Library of America’s Collected Stories, forthcoming in Fall 2009. Jonathan Cape will also publish Beginners as a single volume in the UK. She now spends time in a cottage on Lough Arrow in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland, and also lives and writes in her hometown of Port Angeles, Washington.