Life
1961- ; b. Boston into Irish-American family; grad. Harvard (BA), winning Charles E. Horman Prize in fiction writing as an undergraduate; complete an MA at John Hopkins; winner of a Henfield/Translatlantic Review Award for Creative Writing; issued The Early Arrival of Dreams (1990), an account of her year teaching in China; spent 1991 in Ireland, travelling and interviewing prominent Irish women including President Mary Robinson, Ruth Riddick, Mary Dorcey, Mary O’Donnell and Eavan Boland, Whoredom in Kimmage (1990), a comic-feminist study of Irish women’s lives from Corofin to Dublin. DIL2
Works
Non-Fiction, The Early Arrival of Dreams (NY: Ballantine 1990); Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1993), 336pp.
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