Graduate course work at Trinity College in Hartford initiated Nancy Kerrigan's path to poetry. She is an alumnus of Wesleyan University's Writers Week, and workshops at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poetry appears in Nantucket: A Collection, Brett Van Ernst, editor. Caduceus Vol. 4, 5, 7 & 10 editor, Tony Fusco. Rattle, Vol.13, editor Tim Green, The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices From the Frost Place, editor, Sydney Lea. Her chapbook, The Voices: The Poetry of Psychiatry was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press. She taught in the Schools of Nursing at Loyola University, St. Xavier University and Yale University. Poetry, for her is the artistic medium of choice to describe the complexities and ambivalences of the human mind. Kerrigan's first chapbook The Voices: The Poetry of Psychiatry, dedicated to her mentors and patient's that taught her, was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press. It reflects the esteem she held for all engaged in the psychiatric communities where she worked as a psychotherapist in private & public hospitals.