John MacKenna

JOHN MACKENNA is the author of twenty three books - novels, short-story collections, memoir, poetry and biography - and a number of radio and stage plays. He is a winner of The Irish Times, Hennessy and Cecil Day-Lewis Awards. He is also a winner of a Jacobs Radio award for his documentary series on Leonard Cohen and a Worldplay Silver Medal (New York) for his radio play The Woman at the Window (RTÉ Radio 1). He teaches Creative Writing at Maynooth University and at The Hedge School on the...See more

JOHN MACKENNA is the author of twenty three books - novels, short-story collections, memoir, poetry and biography - and a number of radio and stage plays. He is a winner of The Irish Times, Hennessy and Cecil Day-Lewis Awards. He is also a winner of a Jacobs Radio award for his documentary series on Leonard Cohen and a Worldplay Silver Medal (New York) for his radio play The Woman at the Window (RTÉ Radio 1). He teaches Creative Writing at Maynooth University and at The Hedge School on the Moone. See less