Mary Morrissy

Mary Morrissy

Mary Morrissy (born 1957 Dublin) is an Irish writer.

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Life

Morrissy was educated at the Rathmines School of Journalism. She worked in Australia, and as a sub-editor of The Irish Press.[1] She taught creative writing for the University of Arkansas, and University of Iowa creative writing summer programmes. She was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library,[2] for her work-in-progress, The Duchess, an imagined autobiography of Bella O'Casey, the sister of Seán O'Casey.[3] She lives in Dublin.[4]

In 2008 - 09, she was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University, Washington DC.[5]

Awards

She won a Hennessy Award for short fiction in 1984, a Lannan Literary Award in 1995, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1996.

Works

Short Stories

Novels

References

External links


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