Brendan MacCarthaigh is an author, teacher, social worker, psychologist and a Christian Brother. Brendan is an Irishman who has lived the most art of his life in India. For a long time, Kolkata was his home. Health concerns (Brendan is in his 80s) has forced him to move to Chandigarh, where is continues to teach and compose poems. Brendan prides himself in writing poems that are "easy to understand." He has also written a few books on the education system and growing up. Some of the notable ones are Where the Child is Without Fear, Where the Teacher is a Ease, Teen Things, and Fear the Destroyer,