Michael O’Dea was born in Roscommon in 1955.
His collections are Sunfire (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 1997); and Turn Your Head (The Dedalus Press, 2003).
A bilingual, Galician/English chapbook, Felos ainda serra, was published in Galicia in 2005 by Amastra-N-Gallar.
He lives in Dublin.
Michael O’Dea at The National Library of Ireland