Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin since 1976, he teaches regularly at Harvard University. His translation of Beowulf was an international bestseller in 2000. His most recent books are Electric Light and Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: Seamus Heaney, Brian Narendorf, Debra Allbery, Beth Ann Fennelly, George Bilgere, Sarah Gridley, Jean Passerat, Amanda French, Steve Gehrke, Debra Nystrom, Julianna Baggott, John Bargowski, Monica Ferrell, Adam Vines, John T. Casteen IV