Mary Morrissy

Mary Morrissy was born in Dublin where she still lives. She has published a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993), and two novels inspired by true events: Mother of Pearl (1995), the story of a stolen infant, and The Pretender, a fictional history of the Polish woman who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of the last Romanov Tsar. Morrissy has taught in creative writing programmes at the Universities of Arkansas and Iowa in the US as well as in Trinity College, Dublin. A third novel, based on the life of Bella O'Casey, sister of the famous Irish playwright, is under way.