St. John of the Miraculous Lake
by Rebecca O'Connor
Rebecca O’Connor was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer prize for ‘Best new poet’ in 2004, and was shortlisted for the New Writing Ventures Poetry Award in 2005. She received a bursary from the arts council in Ireland to complete her debut novel He Is Mine and I Have No Other, and her short story ‘The Mayfly’ was an award-winner in the 2003 Virago/Marie Claire short story competition.
She was a writer-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2005 (her collection Poems was published by them in 2006), and she recently edited a book of Irish women’s short stories calledScéalta. She works as a fiction editor at Telegram in London.
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