John MacKenna

John MacKenna is the author of fifteen 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 (RTE Radio 1) . He lives in Co Carlow and lectures in Creative Writing at NUIM.

John MacKenna is the author of fifteen 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 (RTE Radio 1) . He lives in Co Carlow and lectures in Creative Writing at NUIM. See less