Sean Tierney was born in New England in 1987 and currently resides in south Florida. His first collection of poetry, titled “My Ill-Read Ophelia Poem”, was published in 2010 by Ra Press of Burlington, Vermont. Ra Press has since released seven of Tierney's books, a mix of poetry and short stories, the most recent of which is 2017's “Inhibition at 20,000 Feet”.