Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons
Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons was born in Boston in 1954.
Her collections are Leaving America ( Lapwing,1992);
Settler (Cliffs of Moher, Co Clare, Salmon Publishing, 1995); Starting at Purgatory (Salmon Publishing, 1999); and The Bowspirit (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2005).
. A former Assistant Director of
The Robert Frost Place in New Hampshire, with James Simmons she was co-founder and Director of The Poets’ House/Teach na hÉigse, located in
Falcarragh, County Donegal.
She lives in Donegal.