Discipline: Literature – poetry

Molly McCloskey

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: County Sligo, IRELAND
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
Molly McCloskey is an American writer who has lived in Ireland since 1989. Her fiction has won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award (1995) and the inaugural Fish Short Story Prize (1996). Her story “Another Country” was anthologized in The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (2005), edited by David Marcus. In 2009, another of her short stories, “This Isn’t Heaven” was selected by Richard Ford as one of the prize-winning stories in the 2009 Davy Byrne’s Irish Writing Award and was anthologized in Davy Byrne’s Stories. Her first work of non-fiction, a memoir of her schizophrenic brother Mike, called Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother, was named by The Sunday Times (UK) as its Memoir of the Year for 2011. She is a regular reviewer for the Irish Times and has written various pieces for a number of publications, including The Guardian, Elle, and The Dublin Review. In 2009/2010 she was the Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, where she taught on the M. Phil course in creative writing.

Studios

Phi Beta

Molly McCloskey worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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