Martin Mooney

Martin Mooney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, arts administrator and bartender. As well as poetry, he has published short fiction, reviews, critical articles and cultural commentary in Irish and British periodicals. Mooney has been a writer-in-residence at the Brighton Festival and the Aspects Festival of Irish Writing, was for two years Writer-in-Association with the London Mozart Players, and has twice been a member of resident faculty at...See more

Martin Mooney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, arts administrator and bartender. As well as poetry, he has published short fiction, reviews, critical articles and cultural commentary in Irish and British periodicals. Mooney has been a writer-in-residence at the Brighton Festival and the Aspects Festival of Irish Writing, was for two years Writer-in-Association with the London Mozart Players, and has twice been a member of resident faculty at The Frost Place poetry conferences. Martin Mooney has published the chapbooks Bonfire Makers and Operation Sandcastle, as well as a second full-length collection Rasputin and his Children (2000). Poems from each of these publications have won prizes in Irish and British competitions, and a number have appeared in U.S. poetry journals including Field and The Gettysburg Review. See less