Tobias Deehan

Tobias Deehan was born in Queens, New York City. He was an all star soccer player for the New Monmouth, St. Mary’s Traveling Club that was honored to take part in Pelé’s Farewell Soccer Game at Giants Stadium, meeting Pelé in front 75,000 people. Deehan has studied poetry at George Mason University, Charles University, and at the University of Southern California. He has read in the U.S. at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for the Lyric Recovery Festival with Galway Kinnell, James Ragan and Dana Gioia, the Makor/Steinhardt Center, the Skirball Cultural Center and Beyond Baroque. Deehan is the author of two books of poetic utopian nihilism, published through guerillalit. He lives in San Francisco, California.