Colin Carberry was born in Toronto and raised in Ireland. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crossing (Bearing Press, 1998), The Green Table (Exile, 2003) and Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna, 2007), and is the translator of Love Poems (Biblioasis, 2011), by Jaime Sabines. Colin has read from his work on radio and television, and at book fairs, embassies, literary festivals and universities, in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He lives in Mexico.