Catherine Walsh is an Irish poet. She was born in Dublin, and grew up there and in rural Wexford. She is the founder and co-editor of hardPressed Poetry with Billy Mills. She currently lives in Limerick. She served as Holloway Lecturer on the Practice of Poetry at University of California, Berkeley for 2012/13. Her books include Macula The Ca Pater Pillar Thing and More Besides Making Tents Short Stories from Pitch Pitch Idir Eatortha & Making Tents Etruscan Books Reader No 1 from City West City West Optic Verve Astonished Birds Cara, Jane, Bob and James 

January 1st, 1964 in Dublin (Age 60)