Ciaran Berry (born 1971

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) is an Irish-American

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Life

He grew up in Carna,

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and

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. He graduated from

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, a New York Times Fellow. He teaches at

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. His work appeared in ''Gulf Coast'', ''AGNI'', ''Crazyhorse'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''The Threepenny Review'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Green Mountains Review'', ''Ontario Review'', and '' Notre Dame Review''.

Awards

* 2007 Crab Orchard Award * Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection prize *2012 Whiting Award

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

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List of poems

Critical studies and reviews of Berry's work

* Review of ''The dead zoo''.

References

External links

"An Interview with Ciaran Berry", Andrew McFadyen-KetchumProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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