Foster appeared in the 15 February 2010 issue of New Yorker it was later published by Faber and Faber in longer form. Keegan's 'long, short story' Foster won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Short Story Award. Her second collection of short stories, Walk the Blue Fields, was published in 2007. Keegan's first collection of short stories, Antarctica (1999), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the William Trevor Prize. She subsequently received an M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin. She returned to Ireland in 1992, and later lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she undertook an MA in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales. She traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was 17 and studied English and political science at Loyola University. Biography īorn in County Wicklow in 1968, Keegan is the youngest of a large Roman Catholic family. Keegan at the Dublin Writers Festival in 2007.Ĭlaire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta, and The Paris Review.
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