Longford writer Belinda McKeon is to take up a new role in an Irish university later this year.
Maynooth University has confirmed that the award-winning author will lead the Department of English’s new Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing programme.
The author of novels Solace and Tender, and editor of the anthology A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, McKeon will join Maynooth University as Associate Professor in Creative Writing from May.
As a novelist, she has received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Irish Book of the Year Award, and has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and the Encore Award.
She will be moving back to Ireland with her husband and two children after 17 years in America.
She has been speaking to Kevin McGillicuddy on today's Let's Talk
