Christopher Jane Corkery is a poet and essayist. Educated at Manhattanville College and Trinity College Dublin, Corkery has taught at Harvard University, as well as at Holy Cross since 1989. Her first book, Blessing, was published by Princeton University Press and is in its second edition, published by The Authors Guild. Her work has also appeared in journals such as Agni, the Atlantic Monthly, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and others. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, Corkery has also been a fellow of Yaddo and of The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Concord.