Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy in Co Donegal in 1956.
She studied History and Politics at University College, Dublin,
and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Her first book, Oar, (Salmon 1990, revised edition Gallery
Press 2000) won the 1991 Brendan Behan Memorial Prize for
the best first collection published in Ireland in the previous
year. The Parchment Boat was published in 1997.
She was writer-in-residence at Trent University, Ontario, in 1994-95
and editor of Poetry Ireland Review in 1995. She teaches
in a school for adolescent travellers in Galway.
