Nessa O’Mahony
Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin.
Her poetry is collected as Bar Talk,* (Dublin, iTaLiCs Press, 1999); and Trapping a Ghost (Bristol, Bluechrome, 2005).
In 1996 she was joint winner of the Kerry International Summer School Poetry Competition and was short-listed for The Patrick Kavanagh Award. In 1997 she won the National Woman’s Poetry Competition and was short-listed for the Sunday Tribune / Hennessy New Irish Writing Award.
She is editor of the online magazine Electric Acorn
She lives in Dublin.