Rebecca O'Connor

Rebecca’s debut poetry collection We’ll Sing Blackbird was shortlisted for the Irish Times Shine Strong Award and she is the recipient of a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Her work has been published in the Guardian, Poetry Review, The Spectator, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere, and was recently longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Her debut novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other, was published by Canongate in 2018 and shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award. She lives in rural Ireland, where she and her husband set up The Moth in 2010. She edits and designs The Moth and The Caterpillar magazines and runs several prestigious literary prizes.

For more visit: www.rebeccaoconnor.net