Linda McKenna
Author/Poet
LINDA MCKENNA was brought up in Kinsealy in North County Dublin and educated at Malahide Community School, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Leicester. She has lived in Downpatrick for over 20 years. Her debut collection of poetry, 'In the Museum of Misremembered Things,' was published by Doire Press in 2020. The title poem won the An Post/Irish Book Awards/Listowel Writers Week Irish Poem of the Year in 2020. She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2018 and the Red Line Festival Award. Her second collection, 'Four Thousand Keys', was also published by Doire Press in 2024. The book explores voices all but lost to history, except to those curious, like the poet, to examine dusty archives and capture once again the beating pulse of the forgotten
