Author, journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, art critic and part-time professor at Barnard College, Polly Devlin has had a remarkable career, taking her from her rural roots in County Tyrone in Ireland to the sophisticated world of arts and letters in London, New York, and Paris. In her first job as features editor for Vogue, she interviewed many major personalities of the 1960's, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Janis Joplin.
In 1994 Devlin was awarded an OBE for services to literature. In addition to her acclaimed books, All Of Us There, The Far Side of the Lough and Dora: or The Shifts of the Heart, she is also the author of the Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, a guide book to Dublin and a publication for the National Gallery of Ireland on their ceramic collection. She was a Booker Prize Judge in 1984 and in Ireland a judge on The Irish Times Literary Award in 1994. Devlin’s work has been featured in The Daily Telegraph Magazine, American House and Garden,
Saga Magazine, The Irish Times, and in BBC Radio and TV Documentaries. While at MacDowell she finished her book A Year in the Life of An English Meadow, which was published in 2007. Devlin currently lives in London.
