Gerard Rochford was brought up in Worcestershire. Apart from a short spell in Hong Kong he has spent most of his life in Aberdeen. He is a founder member of Dead Good Poets – Aberdeen, and convener of the poetry readings in Books and Beans café/bookshop. He has appeared in Lines Review, Poetry Scotland, Nomad, Cutting Teeth, Pushing Out the Boat, Northwords Now, and many other magazines.His recent collections include Three-way Street, with Douglas W. Gray and Eddie Gibbons published by Koo Press and The Holy Family and Other Poems, also Koo Press in 2005.