Moya Cannon
Author
1956 –
Who is Moya Cannon?
Moya Cannon is an Irish author.
Cannon was born in 1956 in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. She studied History and Politics at University College Dublin, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
She has taught in the Gaelscoil in Inchicore, in a school for adolescent travellers in Galway, and at the National University of Ireland in Galway. She served as editor of Poetry Ireland in 1995. Her work has appeared in a number of international anthologies and she has held writer-in-residence posts for Kerry County Council and Trent University Ontario.
Cannon became a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland, in 2004.
Her first book, Oar, won the 1991 Brendan Behan Memorial Prize. It was followed by The Parchment Boat in 1997. Carrying the Songs: New and Selected Poems was published by Carcanet Press in 2007.
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- Born
- 1956
Dunfanaghy - Nationality
- Republic of Ireland
- Education
- University College Dublin
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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