Life

Morrissy was educated at the Rathmines

Rathmines

Rathmines is a suburb on the southside of Dublin, about 3 kilometres south of the city centre. It effectively begins at the south side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to the south, Ranelagh to the east and Harold's Cross to the west.Rathmines has...

 School of Journalism. She worked in Australia, and as a sub-editor of The Irish Press

The Irish Press

The Irish Press was an Irish national daily newspaper published by Irish Press plc between 5 September 1931 and 25 May 1995.-Foundation:...

. She taught creative writing for the University of Arkansas

University of Arkansas

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, and University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

 creative writing summer programmes. She was a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library

New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...

, for her work-in-progress, The Duchess, an imagined autobiography of Bella O'Casey, the sister of Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.- Early life:...

. She lives in Dublin.

In 2008 - 09, she was Jenny McKean Moore "Writer in Washington" at George Washington University

George Washington University

The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

, Washington DC.

Awards

She won a Hennessy Award for short fiction in 1984, a Lannan Literary Award in 1995, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1996.

Short Stories

• A Lazy Eye, London, Jonathan Cape/ New York, Scribner, 1993, ISBN 0099701413
• New Irish Short Stories, ed.Joseph O'Connor
  Joseph O'Connor
  Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. He is known for his 2002 historical novel Star of the Sea. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the Sunday Tribune newspaper and Esquire magazine...
  
  , Faber and Faber, 2011, ISBN 0571255272

Novels

• Mother of Pearl, Scribner, 1995/Jonathan Cape, 1996, ISBN 0099582511
• The Pretender, Jonathan Cape, 2000, ISBN 0099283670

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