Liz McSkeane
Liz McSkeane is a writer and publisher who was born in Scotland and has lived in Ireland since 1981. She has four collections of poetry : In Flight (Lapwing, 1996), Snow at the Opera House (New Island, 2002), So Long, Calypso (Turas Press, 2017) and Learning to Tango (Turas Press, 2021). Her first novel, Canticle is based on the life of the Spanish mystic poet John of the Cross, was a winner in the 2016 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and published by Turas Press in 2018. Her 2022 short story collection, What To Put in a Suitcase was widely reviewed and highly praised.
