Kevin Barry, Martina Evans, Paul Grattan. Thursday 26 March, 8.00pm

Fenderesky Gallery, 105 Royal Avenue

Part of Between The Lines 2009

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry was born in Limerick in 1969 and now lives in Dublin. He writes sketches and columns for the Sunday Herald in Glasgow and the Irish Examiner in Cork. He has written about travel and literature for The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sydney Morning Herald; Barry ’s fiction has appeared in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Phoenix Best Irish Stories 2001 (ed. David Marcus), These Are Our Lives (ed. Declan Meade) and in a number of periodicals in the United States. In 2004, he was shortlisted for the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award and his first collection of stories There Are Little Kingdoms (2007) won the Rooney Prize.

Martina Evans

Martina Evans was born in Cork (1961) and studied sciences there at University College before training as a radiographer in Dublin. She worked for fourteen years as a radiographer and, during this time, moved to London (1988). Martina Evans has published three poetry collections, The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest (1995), All Alcoholics Are Charmers (1998) and Can Dentists Be Trusted? (2004);her three novels include Midnight Feast(1995), which won a Betty Trask Award, The Glass Mountain (1997) and No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors (2000), which won an Arts Council of England Award in 1999. She teaches at the City Library Institute and is a Royal Literary Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Paul Grattan

Paul Grattan was born in Glasgow in 1971 and currently lives in Belfast. After graduating from Strathclyde University he moved to Northern Ireland (1995), completing an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University at The Poets’ House, County Antrim, under James Simmons. He is currently undertaking a postgraduate degree in Creative Writing at Magee in Derry focusing on the work of Kenneth White. Paul Grattan’s first collection of poetry, The End of Napoleon’s Nose (2002), was described by the Edinburgh Review as a ‘romp through the wilder zones of the Celtic fringe, marking the arrival of an exciting new voice in Scottish/Irish poetry ’.

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