Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. Since 1995 he has taught American literature at the Charles University, Prague. He has published three books of criticism, most recently the Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry (2008). He also translates Czech poetry and From the Interior: Selected Poems 1995-2005 by Petr Borkovec appeared from Seren in 2008. Previous collections of poetry are The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird (1995) and Privacy (1999). UCD Press published his Gathered Beneath The Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community in 2002. He has published three collections with The Gallery Press, Fuselage (2002), Waves and Trees (2006) and Close Quarters (2011).
He is married to Tereza Limanová and they have two sons, Finbar and Manus.
