Claire Keegan

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Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish short stories writer. She was born in Co Wicklow in 1968, the youngest of a large Roman Catholic family. She travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was seventeen and studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992 and lived for a year in Cardiff, Wales, where she undertook an MA in creative writing and taught undergraduates at the University of Wales. Her first collection of short stories was Antarctica (1998). Her another collections of stories are Arrows in Flight (2002) and Walk the Blue Fields (2007). She won the William Trevor Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Olive Cook Award.

Keegan lives in rural Ireland but is currently a visiting professor at Villanova University.