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 an earlier volume of Sabines’s verse. His own poetry has been translated into many languages. 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.