Collection: Lorna Shaughnessy

Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway. Her first collection of poems Torching the Brown River was published by Salmon Poetry in 2008. Her poem 'Grasping the Nettle' was selected for The Forward Book of Poetry 2009. She has published two translations of contemporary Mexican poetry, Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura Lopez Colome and If We Have Lost our Oldest Tales by Maria Baranda, both with Arlen House (2006).