Martina Evans is a poet and novelist. She grew up in County Cork and studied sciences for two years at University College Cork before studying for a radiography degree at St Vincent’s Hospital Dublin. She worked for fifteen years as a radiographer and in this time she moved to London (1988) and completed a degree in English and Philosophy at the Open University.  

Martina began writing in 1990 and has published three books of poetry and three novels. Her first novel, Midnight Feast, won a Betty Trask Award in 1995 and her third novel, No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors (Bloomsbury 2000), won an Arts Council of England Award in 1999. Her fourth poetry collection, Facing the Public, is due to be published by Anvil Press in September 2009 and has won a bursary award from both the Irish Arts Council ( An Chomhairle Eiraíon) and Arts Council of England.

Currently, she teaches creative writing at the City Literary Institute and Centreprise Literature Development Project. She lives in Hackney with her daughter Liadain.

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collections -

"Facing the Public",
"All Alcoholics
Are Charmers"
and
"Can Dentists
Be Trusted?",
Anvil

"The Iniscarra Bar
and Cycle Rest",
Rockingham

novels -
"Midnight Feast",
"No Drinking
No Dancing
No Doctors",
"The Glass Mountain"

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