Mrs Medbh McGuckian

Career: teacher of Eng Fortwilliam Convent Belfast and St Patrick's Coll Belfast, writer in residence Queen's Univ Belfast, lectr in Eng St Mary's Trg Coll Belfast, currently lectr Seamus Heaney Inst for Poetry Queen's Univ Belfast, visiting fell Univ of Calif Berkeley 1991, writer in residence New Univ of Ulster Coleraine 1995-98; Irish memb Aosdána, hon fell Inst of Irish Studies Queen's Univ Belfast, Hon DLitt Univ of Aberdeen 2008; Awards winner Nat Poetry Competition, Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, Rooney Prize for Lit, Gregory Award 1980, winner Cheltenham Poetry Prize, Irish-American Prize for Literature 1998, Tolman Cunard Prize for Best Single Poem 2002

Books and Publications: incl: Single Ladies (1980), Portrait of Joanna (1980), The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), On Ballycastle Beach (1988), Two Women - Two Shores (1988), Marconi's Cottage (1991), Captain Lavender (1994), Selected Poems (1997), Shelmalier (1998), Drawing Ballerinas (2001), The Face of the Earth (2002), Had I a Thousand Lives (2003), The Book of the Angel (2004), The Currach Requires No Harbours (2006)