Kate Dempsey (born 1962), Irish based poet and founder of Kinsale Mead Co.

Biography

Born in

Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town in Hertfordshire, England, just west of the M11 motorway on the county boundary with Essex, north-east of central London, and by rail from Liverpool Street station. Stortford had an estimated po ...

in 1962, Kate Dempsey grew up in

Bothwell Bothwell is a conservation village in the South Lanarkshire council area of Scotland. It lies on the north bank of the River Clyde, adjacent to Uddingston and Hamilton, east-south-east of Glasgow city centre. Description and history An ancie ...

and Coventry. She went to

Finham Park School Finham Park School is a secondary school and sixth form with Academy (English school), academy status. It is situated on Green Lane in Finham, Coventry, England. In September 2003, it became the first Mathematics and Computing College in Covent ...

before she graduated with a degree in Physics from

St Hilda's College, Oxford St Hilda's College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; it ...

. After college, she worked in IT and lived in the UK,

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

in the Netherlands , and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She spent twenty-five years living in Maynooth. She is married to Denis Dempsey and together they founded Kinsale Mead Co. She has won a number of awards for her writing, The Plough Prize, the Cecil Day Lewis Award as well as commendations for the Patrick Kavanagh Award and The Forward Prizes for Poetry. She has also been shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Dempsey runs a writers group called Poetry Divas. Her debut Poetry Collection, The Space Between, was published in 2016 by Doire Press.

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