Maynooth University has announced that the author Belinda McKeon will lead their Department of English’s new Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing programme.
The Longford-born author of novels Solace and Tender will join Maynooth University as Associate Professor in Creative Writing from May.
As a novelist, Belinda McKeon has received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Irish Book of the Year Award, and has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and the Encore Award.
She has also edited an acclaimed anthology, A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, and has written for the stage, with works for The Abbey, Fishamble and THISISPOPBABY.
McKeon comes to Maynooth from Rutgers University in the US, where she has taught fiction since 2014.
The new Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing at Maynooth University launches in Autumn 2022 - find out more here.
