Mary Morrissy

Mary Morrissy (born 1957 in Dublin) is an Irish writer. She is a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award.

Life

Morrissy was educated at the Rathmines School of Journalism. She worked in Australia, and as a sub-editor of The Irish Press. She has taught creative writing for the University of Arkansas, and University of Iowa creative writing summer programmes. In 1995, she was awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.

In 2008 - 09, Morrissy was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University, Washington DC. Morrissy was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, for her work-in-progress, The Duchess, an imagined autobiography of Bella O'Casey, the sister of Seán O'Casey. The novel was published in 2013 as The Rising of Bella Casey. In 2015, Morrissy was appointed as Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Cork.

Awards

Morrissy won a Hennessy Award for short fiction in 1984, a Lannan Literary Award in 1995, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1996. In March 2015, Morrissy was elected a member of Aosdána.

Works

Short Stories

• A Lazy Eye, London, Jonathan Cape/ New York, Scribner, 1993, ISBN 0-09-970141-3
• New Irish Short Stories, ed. Joseph O'Connor, Faber and Faber, 2011, ISBN 0-571-25527-2
• Dubliners 100, ed. Thomas Morris, Tramp Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0992817015
• Prosperity Drive, Jonathan Cape, 2016, ISBN 978-0224102193

Novels

• Mother of Pearl, Scribner, 1995/Jonathan Cape, 1996, ISBN 0-09-958251-1
• The Pretender, Jonathan Cape, 2000, ISBN 0-09-928367-0
• The Rising of Bella Casey, Brandon, 2013, ISBN 978-1847175762

External links

• Mary Morrissy blog
• "A Conversation with Mary Morrissy". The Dublin Quarterly. 19 September 2007.
• CANDICE RODD (14 March 1993). "BOOK REVIEW / Written on the body: 'A Lazy Eye' - Mary Morrissy". The Independent.
• Patrick McGrath (August 11, 1996). "Marked Women". The New York Times.