Caoilinn Hughes

The poems that garnered Caoilinn Hughes the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award form the basis of her first book, Gathering Evidence, which is published conjointly by Carcanet Press (UK) and Victoria University Press. Poems from the collection also won the 2013 Cúirt New Writing Prize and the Trocaire / Poetry Ireland Competition. Born in Galway, Ireland, Hughes completed her BA and MA degrees at the Queen's University of Belfast and subsequently moved to New Zealand in 2007. She is in the final months of a PhD in English (Fiction) at Victoria University of Wellington.

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