Mary Morrissy

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

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 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.^[2]

In 2008 - 09, Morrissy was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University, Washington DC.^[3] Morrissy was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library,^[4] 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.^[5] In 2015, Morrissy was appointed as Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Cork.^[6]

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.^[7]

Works

Short Stories

• A Lazy Eye, London, Jonathan Cape/ New York, Scribner, 1993, ISBN 0-09-970141-3
• New Irish Short Stories, ed.Joseph O'Connor, Faber and Faber, 2011, ISBN 0-571-25527-2
• Dubliners 100, ed. Thomas Morris, Tramp Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0992817015

Novels

• Mother of Pearl, Scribner, 1995/Jonathan Cape, 1996, ISBN 0-09-958251-1
• The Pretender, Jonathan Cape, 2000, ISBN 0-09-928367-0
• The Rising of Bella Casey, Brandon, 2013, ISBN 978-1847175762
• Prosperity Drive, Jonathan Cape, 2016, ISBN 978-0224102193

References

1. "The Eco-friendly Garden". Pgil-eirdata.org. 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
2. "Mary Morrissy, Lannan". lannan.org. November 10, 2001. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
3. "Jenny McKean Moore". George Washington University. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
4. "Fellows and Their Topics for the Year 2005-2006". New York Public Library. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
5. Hickling, Alfred (4 October 2013). "The Rising of Bella Casey by Mary Morrissy – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
6. "Mary Morrissy, University College Cork". creative writing ucc. May 10, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
7. "Aosdána elects 11 new members at its General Assembly". artscouncil.ie. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

External links

• Mary Morrissy blog
• "A Conversation with Mary Morrissy". The Dublin Quarterly. 19 September 2007.
• CANDICE RODD (14 March 1993). "BOOK REVIEW / Written on the body: 'A Lazy Eye' - Mary Morrissy". The Independent.
• Patrick McGrath (August 11, 1996). "Marked Women". The New York Times.