Linda McKenna is originally from Dublin, but has lived in Downpatrick in County Down for many years. She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2018 and the title poem of her first collection, In the Museum of Misremembered Things (Doire Press, 2020), won the An Post/ Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year in 2020. She has worked in heritage and museums for nearly 30 years. Four Thousand Keys is her second collection. 

photo credit: Peadar Curran