Celeste Augé

Celeste Augé is an Irish-Canadian writer who has lived in Ireland since she was twelve years old, when her family moved from the backwoods of Northern Ontario, Canada. Over the years she has worked in various jobs--babysitter, waitress, shop assistant, library assistant, girl Friday, English literature tutor, community Writer-in-Residence--and now she teaches creative writing to adults. When she was in her twenties, she dropped out of art college; in her thirties she completed an MA in Writing.

Her poetry was short-listed for a Hennessy Literary Award the same year that Salmon Poetry published her first full-length poetry collection, 'The Essential Guide to Flight'. Her short story 'The Good Boat' won the 2011 Cúirt New Writing Prize for fiction. She now lives in Connemara in the west of Ireland with her husband and son, a stone's throw from where her mother was born and reared.

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