Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, in 1964, and grew up on a farm
outside Athlone.
Her collections are Shale (Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 1994);
Other People’s Houses (The Gallery Press, 1999); Flight (The Gallery Press, 2002), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2002, and winner of the Michael Hartnett Award in 2003; Flight and Earlier Poems (North Carolina, Wake Forest University Press, 2004); and Juniper Street (The Gallery Press, 2005).
Among her awards are the Hennessy Award for Poetry, the Brendan Behan Memorial Prize, Strokestown International Poetry Award,and the Stand Magazine Poetry Prize.
She lives in North Carolina where she teaches at Wake Forest University.
