Lorna Shaughnessy
Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast.
Her first collection is Torching The Brown River (Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 2008).
She has published two translations of contemporary Mexican poetry, Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé(Galway, Arlen House, 2007); and If We Have Lost our Oldest Tales by María Baranda (Arlen House, 2007).
Her academic titles include The Developing Poetic Philosophy of Pedro Salinas: A Study in Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry - La Reconquista De La Entereza Del Hombre (Ceredigion, UK/New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995).
She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway, and lives in County Galway.
