Oisín Curran grew up in rural Maine. He received a BA in Classics and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University (where he was the recipient of a national scholarship and a writing fellowship), and a diploma in Translation (French to English) from Concordia University. He is the author of MOPUS (Counterpath Press, 2008) and was named a 'Writer to Watch' by CBC: Canada Writes. Curran lives in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, with his wife and two children.