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Martina Evans grew up in County Cork, the youngest of ten children. She trained as a radiographer at St Vincent’s Hospital Dublin. She moved to London in 1988 and after 14years in radiography became a full time writer in 1996.  

Her poems have been published widely in newspapers and magazines.

Her poetry books are The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest, Rockingham Press 1995 All Alcoholics Are Charmers Anvil Press 1998 and Can Dentists Be Trusted? Anvil Press 2004.

She won the Betty Trask award for her first novel Midnight Feast and an Arts Council Award for her third novel No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors in 1999. Her other novel is The Glass Mountain.  

She is a Creative Writing tutor at the Cit Lit, Centreprise Literature Development Project and Queen Mary University of London and lives in East London with her daughter Liadain.

 

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collection - "The Iniscarra Bar and Cycle Rest", Rockingham
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novels - "Midnight Feast", "No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors", "The Glass Mountain"


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