Born in Dublin in 1942 Rowley was educated through a
Dublin Corporation scholarship. She went on to work in the Agricultural Institute and worked in
Birmingham before going on to third level education. She was educated in
Trinity College Dublin where she graduated with a degree in Irish and English literature, and philosophy in 1974. She later gained a diploma from the
National University of Ireland in psychology. In the later 1970s Rowley emigrated to Luxembourg where she worked for several years. She retired and became involved in the
Green movement in Ireland. She went back to college to complete a master's again in Trinity College in 1984. Her thesis was on the poems of
Patrick Kavanagh. She has written the longest poem in terza rima in the English language and has been president of the Irish Byron Society from 2008 to 2012. Rowley lives in
Booterstown, County Dublin and has one son, David. ==Poetry==