Rosita Boland
| Date of Birth: | 1 January 1970 |
| Address: | Dublin |
Rosita Boland was born in County Clare in 1965 and lives in Dublin where she is Senior Features Writer at the Irish Times. She has published two collections of poems, Muscle Creek (Raven Arts, 1991) and Dissecting the Heart (Gallery, 2003). She has travelled extensively, most recently through South East Asia and her travel books include Sea Legs: Hitch-hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone (New Island, 1992), A Secret Map of Ireland (New Island Books, 2005), Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel (2019), and Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships (Penguin Random House) published in September 2021. She won the Hennessy Award for First Fiction in 1997.
