Kerri Sonnenberg is originally from Illinois and currently lives in Cork, Ireland. Before moving to Ireland, she co-directed the Discrete Reading Series in Chicago and edited the literary journal Conundrum. She is the author of The Mudra (Litmus Press 2004). Her work has been anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and most recently in A Journey Called Home, a collection of writing by new Corkonians.