Kevin McGrath was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. Presently he is an Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and Poet Laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University. McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family.

Publications include, Fame (1995); Lioness (1998); The Sanskrit Hero (2004);

Flyer (2005); Comedia (2008); Stri (2009); Jaya (2011); Supernature (2012);

Eroica, and Heroic Krsna (2013); In the Kacch, and Windward (2015);

Arjuna Pandava, and Eros (2016); Raja Yudhisthira (2017);

Bhisma Devavrata (2018); Vyasa Redux (2019); Song Of The Republic (2020);

and On Friendship, and Causality In Homeric Song (forthcoming, 2023).