Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is an Irish poet, and was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964. She has published four collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale (1994), Other People's Houses (1999), Flight (2002), and Juniper Street (2006). She is published in North America by Wake Forest University Press.

Her many prizes include The Brendan Behan Memorial Award, the Hennessy Award, the Michael Hartnett Award and the Strokestown International Poetry Award.

She has been a co-holder of the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University and currently divides her teaching time between the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester and Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

She has also edited Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and is married to fellow Irish poet Conor O'Callaghan.

Books

• Shale (1994)
• Other People's Houses (1999)
• Flight (2002)
• Juniper Street (2006)

Links

• Wake Forest University Press North American publisher of Vona Groarke