Biography
Mick Ó Seasnáin has continually attempted to farm his quarter acre lot in the small town of Wooster, Ohio while catering to the diverse and often unanticipated needs of his three rowdy children. His wife tolerates his creative habits and occasionally enables his binges of writing and photography.
Ó Seasnáin is a writing teacher by trade and an artist by Dame Fortune. Ó Seasnáin’s vocation was inspired by his uncle, a social activist who founded Collinwood Arts Center in Cleveland; Ralph David Delaney lived behind a camera, lifting the spirits of the poor and homeless with his work, and sacrificing his life while attempting to help others.
Although Delaney was violently murdered in 1990 when Ó Seasnáin was very young, his uncle's philosophy stuck with Mick: "...Discover the beauty and goodness in other human beings and then help them to see the beauty and goodness in themselves."
Ó Seasnáin graduated from St. Edward High School (Lakewood, Ohio) and then completed a B.A. in English from Baldwin Wallace University followed by an M.A.T. in English from Miami University. He works with The National Writing Project through Kent State University, and he teaches English language arts for Edgewood Middle School in Wooster, Ohio.
"Men at Work"
Photograph by
Mick's lovely wife, Amy
