Nessa OMahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Irish, UK, and North American periodicals and has been translated into several European languages. She won the National Womens Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, a Simba Gill Fellowship in 2005 and an artists bursary from South Dublin County Council in 2007. She has published three books: Bar Talk (Italics Press, Dublin 1999), Trapping a Ghost (bluechrome, Bristol, 2005) and In Sight of Home (Salmon Poetry, 2005). She is assistant editor of UK literary journal, Orbis.




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