Name Mary Morrissy | Role Writer | |
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Awards Lannan Literary Award for Fiction Books The Rising of Bella Casey, A Lazy Eye, The pretender, Mother of pearl | ||
The Attic Sessions #19. In Conversation with Tanya Farrelly & Mary Morrissy
Mary Morrissy (born 1957 in Dublin) is an Irish writer.
Contents
- The Attic Sessions 19 In Conversation with Tanya Farrelly Mary Morrissy
- Mary Morrissy
- Life
- Awards
- Short Stories
- Novels
- References
Mary Morrissy
Life
Morrissy was educated at the Rathmines School of Journalism. She worked in Australia, and as a sub-editor of The Irish Press. She has taught creative writing for the University of Arkansas, and University of Iowa creative writing summer programmes. In 1995, she was awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.
In 2008 - 09, Morrissy was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University, Washington DC. Morrissy was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, for her work-in-progress, The Duchess, an imagined autobiography of Bella O'Casey, the sister of Seán O'Casey. The novel was published in 2013 as The Rising of Bella Casey. In 2015, Morrissy was appointed as Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Cork.
Awards
Morrissy won a Hennessy Award for short fiction in 1984, a Lannan Literary Award in 1995, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1996. In March 2015, Morrissy was elected a member of Aosdána.