Terence WinchWriter and musician Terence Patrick Winch is the Bronx-born son of Irish immigrants. Seeing-Eye Boy, his first novel, takes its subject matter from his gritty upbringing in the Irish ghetto. Winch has published eight books of poems, winning an Americn Book Award, the Columbia Book Award, and an NEA poetry fellowship along the way. He's also the author of two story collections. A founder of the original Celtic Thunder band, he wrote the group's best-known song, "When New York Was Irish." Terence Winch is the former Head of Publications at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Read More Read Less