Killarney Clary was born and raised in Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. Her first collection of poems, Who Whispered Near Me, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1990 and by Bloodaxe Books in England in Fall 1991. Greenhouse Review Press in Santa Cruz, CA, published a chapbook of her poems, By Me, By Any Can and Can't Be Done, in 1980.